Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles 52 years ago, TIME'S pre-Games coverage amounted to one column of miscellaneous notes and statistics. (Sample: the 69-member Brazilian team was so strapped for funds it had to sell bags of coffee to finance its stay.) We...
IN HER acceptance speech to the Democratic Convention last week. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) warned of "a Supreme Court that turns the clock back to the 19th century. "She was referring to an array of recent High Court decisions which have made in roads into the most...
CONVENTION. Between strategy meetings with Walter Mondale and work sessions with aides who are drafting her acceptance speech, Geraldine Ferraro took time last Saturday afternoon to meet with TIME Correspondent John F. Stacks. Savoring the sun on the deck of a rented Lake Tahoe resort home, Ferraro was relaxed and...
CONVENTION. By becoming the first black to mount a major presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson ensured that the 1984 political season would esta- blish one historic precedent long before Geraldine Ferraro added a second. But instead of savoring his electoral accomplishments, which went far beyond what most political observers thought possible...
In fact, many of Jackson's outbursts were the flailings of a wounded man who was not getting the thing he wanted most of all: a seat at the table of power. As one of three finalists in the long Democratic primary season, Jackson had expected to be consulted...