Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkpatrick's cult standing with the party's ruling right wing was firmly established last summer, when her attack on "the San Francisco Democrats," whom she blamed for an era of national self-doubt, drew a foot-stamping response at the Republican Convention in Dallas. While her departure from the...
Grove, 48, the son of a Hungarian dairyman, came to the U.S. in 1957. After working in research and development at Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he joined Intel (1984 sales: $1.6 billion) in 1968 shortly after it had been founded by two Fairchild alumni. He was named president in 1979. Despite...
While this gambit refreshes one basic convention, Fletch hews very closely to another. As Philip Marlowe and his heirs have delighted in showing us for the past half-century or so, corruption, especially in the greater Los Angeles area, knows no class distinctions. Start working on what looks like a...
Most of the 16 stories are set in the Canada of the 1930s and 1940s, an era of lingering Victorianism when citizens flouted convention at their risk. A compelling case is the French-Canadian family in Saturday. Fiercely anticlerical, the husband and wife send their children to English-Canadian schools...
From his mountaintop home in Tabernash, Colo., Singlaub directs the World Anti-Communist League. Founded in 1966, WACL has been tainted by ties to ultrarightists, neo-Nazis and Latin American death squads, though Singlaub claims that objectionable members have been purged. Last September President Reagan sent a greeting to WACL...