Word: conventioners
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The 12 rule changes, which were passed by near unanimous votes of the NCAA's 435 member institutions, came at a special meeting of college athletics' governing body in New Orleans. The so-called "integrity convention" marked only the fifth time in its 79-year history that the NCAA held...
Fox cited the admission of students who could not be expected to graduate and the illegal use of Booster Club money for athletic programs--both of which were addressed by the special convention--as problems not "affecting the Ivy League in general."
The smoldering quarrel between the Fundamentalists and moderates intensified in 1969, when the S.B.C. Sunday School Board began issuing serially the multivolume Broadman Bible Commentary. The project was established to summarize Southern Baptist thinking. The 56 theologians involved made mild use of "higher criticism" (theorizing about literary sources underlying Bible...
In that spirit, the convention followed up its election of Stanley by voting in Moore as first vice president of the S.B.C. It was a pointed gesture of compromise. Moore's principal rival was Incumbent Zig Ziglar, a layman who has spent the past year assailing "liberal" professors. The Dallas...
But no. "We have no capacity whatsoever to deal with nuclear war," said Reutershan of the Public Health Service, sounding offended by a chaos that beggared his means to cope. Indeed, for prac- tically everyone in the convention hall, nuclear war would be the ultimate professional frustration, not the ultimate...