Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Cambridge Housing Convention, which in September blasted Harvard and Harvard students for contributing to the City's lack of low-rent housing, will hold its second session on Dec. 14.
Daniel F. Connelly, the chairman of the convention's coordinating committee, said the second meeting "is going to help keep the pressure on for real commitment from the groups who are responsible for this [housing] situation and morally obligated to contribute to a solution."
At the convention's first session on Sept. 14, about 800 Cambridge residents passed scores of resolutions, many of them sharply-worded, calling for action by the universities and the City government to increase the supply of low-rent housing in Cambridge. Since then the co-ordinating committee appointed to...
Initially, Humphrey thought Richard Nixon would be an easy target. The Chicago debacle changed his mind. In retrospect, Humphrey believes that he might have made more headway with Eugene McCarthy's dissidents if he had spoken out sooner on Viet Nam. Even before the convention, he had a speech...
By the end of 1968, truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present - a year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking...