Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he dropped out of Yale as a freshman in 1977, Ron has pursued a meandering private path that has not always delighted his parents. Commenting in 1981 on his son's decision to become a dancer, Reagan awkwardly told reporters, "It's O.K. We've made sure he's...
Javier and Pacificador were longtime rivals. Javier, 43, a lawyer who studied at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and once served as provincial governor, had been an outspoken critic of President Marcos. Pacificador, 55, is an attorney who reportedly won Marcos' loyalty by purging references to bought votes from...
If Buchanan sounded downright evangelical for a politician, one evangelist in particular sounded mighty like a politician. He was Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, 55, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a fixture on CBN's four-times-a-day The 700 Club. Robertson, a Southern Baptist, has been transmitting...
Jimmy Swaggart went on TV three years after Schuller and claimed his first No. 1 rating by 1982. Not that Swaggart was unknown in the South. He had long been a radio preacher and top country-Gospel singer (his cousin is Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis). The son of an Assemblies...
He found the hall in the modern Havana convention center half empty. As many of the Cuban delegates milled in the foyer, drinking coffee and chatting, a fuming Castro grabbed the microphone and snapped, "We were just talking about discipline, and now some of the comrades are not even in...