Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Republican State Convention then endorsed the candidacy of state Representative Royall Switzler of Wellesley, a well-known, colorful gadfly. Switzler later admitted he had lied about his military record when he claimed to have served as a Green Beret in Vietnam. Switzler's Vietnam combat experience, he revealed, had...
The lovingly assembled career retrospective of 138 garments, which opened last month at New York City's National Academy of Design, is an eye-popper. The interplay of color and fabric is, as usual, dazzling. Heavy-duty industrial zippers are used with both leather and lace; effulgent Hudson's Bay...
The laughter doesn't faze Welliver, 42, a frozen-foods shipping clerk in Omaha. He is in ecstasy here on a stage at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, harmonizing with one of the finest quartets in the land, at the annual convention of the Society for the Preservation and...
Hotel message boards reflect the close fraternity of men, and their wives, many of them members of the Adelines: "The Redwoods from N.Z. Are in Room 1109," "Alice and Albert, Have a Nice Day, John." At the souvenir tables, singers snatch up LPs by grand masters and $27 home-study...
But Quayle is not as vacuous as his critics and some of his odder statements ("I'm not a yuppie, I'm a Senator") suggest. He is knowledgeable about weapons systems and deserves praise for his work on the Job Training Partnership Act. His problem is that he has not...