Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Thousand Clowns confronts this poignant process of learning to compromise, but does so without losing its sense of humor. Murray Burns (George Miller), its rebellious and endearing hero, is an unemployed scriptwriter sickened by the necessity to toady to an imbecilic boss. He conducts a one-man protest against...
The Constitutional Convention last night outlined the six broad issues the body will consider in writing a constitution for a proposed student government at Harvard.
Home from Houston, the women now plunge into the demanding area of legislative politics. White House Aide Midge Costanza and nearly 50 women from the Federal Government who were in Houston will meet with President Carter within the next two weeks to discuss the convention. Conference commissioners will spend the...
Impatient with the slow process of getting an anti-abortion constitutional amendment through Congress, Right-to-Lifers have persuaded nine state legislatures to vote to convene a constitutional convention. If 25 more states go along -an unlikely proposition-America's second constitutional convention will be held.
Lesbian Rights. "Sexual preference," the feminist euphemism for lesbian rights, was not on the original agenda for Houston, but under the rules any subject had to be considered if ten or more state conventions asked for it. The demand for a lesbian rights provision came thundering down from no fewer...