Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Constitutional Convention passed three motions last night that essentially declared the new constitution would establish an independent student government.
But many of the convention delegates unsuccessfully pushed for motions which declared that the new student government should supercede the existing advisory committees by creating their own sub-committees that would take over the existing committees' functions.
To improve on the dismal G.O.P. performance, Brock hired a firm of black political consultants in Columbus, Ga., promoted the appointment of blacks to organize Southern states for the G.O.P. and visited Georgia and Mississippi to see what else could be done. Last November two top officials of the Mississippi...
Then came Kennedy's assassination, and Lyndon Johnson looked around for a running mate in 1964. Still the favorite of many liberals, Humphrey was the natural choice for a mistrusted Southerner with links to big oil. But Lyndon flirted with a variety of other possibles and kept Humphrey uncomfortably...
As long as this anti-hero is kept rattling around, Manhattan, the novel remains a kind of manic satire. Jupe moderates a panel discussion during the convention of Writers Inc. (a "United Nations of literary bureaucrats"); his colleagues include a writer who is making a fortune from confessional books about...