Word: conventioners
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Jonathan Z. Larsen '61, who is now a freelancewriter, says he approached the New Frontier withrenewed patriotism. "When Kennedy sounded thebugle, I was more than ready to follow." But theturmoil of the late '60s taught Larsen, who coveredthe tumultous 1968 Democratic convention inChicago for Time magazine, that the solution forchange...
Delegates to the international convention of the powerful Teamsters Union are not used to sitting through scoldings from their guest speakers, especially from one appointed by a President who has twice won their endorsement. But a scolding is precisely what some 2,000 Teamsters representatives got from Labor Secretary William...
It was only after his stem-winder at the 1984 Democratic National Convention (a speech he today regards as far too emotional) that Mario Cuomo pierced the larger American consciousness. Already this year he has been asked to speak in nearly every state; colleges beckon him with offers of commencement...
Indeed, when Presser, 59, returned from Las Vegas to Cleveland for arraignment on Saturday, he interrupted a honeymoon that began with his fifth marriage on May 4 (to ex-Local 507 Secretary Cindy Jarabek, 38). He was anticipating near certain re-election to a five-year term as president by...
Strong Republican challenges also confront incumbent State Treasurer Robert Crane, who will serve as convention chairman, and Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly. Their opponents are Republicans Joyce Hampers and Deborah Cochran respectively.