Word: conventioners
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Expanded public awareness. This is the heart of Reagan's program, and his personal involvement is the first step. "We must make drug use the top item in the national dialogue," Reagan told a convention of drug-prevention activists last week in Virginia. It was his third antidrug speech in...
The potent appeal of each was on display last week. Jackson, 44, gave an uncompromising keynote at the annual convention of Operation PUSH, the civil rights group he founded 15 years ago, a day after playing host at a dinner for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Robertson proved in Tuesday's...
Jackson is seeking to make his "rainbow coalition" less monochromatic. His technique is to back the demands of almost every discontented group in society: feminists, distressed farmers, striking meat packers and TWA flight attendants, and laid-off oil-field workers. Says one party strategist: "His is an effort to take...
The petition is a gimmick designed to fatten G.O.P. coffers, to be sure, but Reagan was perfectly happy to play along. On the fund-raising circuit himself last week, he told a Texas audience that as he flew over the Dallas Convention Center, where he was renominated in 1984, he...
What is America's biggest regional repertory company, employing as many as 63 actors to mount a dozen productions for a total of 676 performances a year? What company features three spaces ranging from a stripped-down, experimental "black box" and a handsome conventional auditorium to a 1,173-seat...