Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"In the highest civilization," wrote Emerson, "the book is still the highest delight." Well, not for Michael Milken, particularly since he is the book's subject. The controversial junk-bond financier reportedly offered to pay Writer Connie Bruck to give up work on her book about him and his investment...
Yet when Andrew Young got up to speak to the San Francisco convention about the platform, he was booed by younger delegates loyal to Jackson. At a black caucus, summoned to calm black delegates' angers, Coretta King was booed when she spoke for Young. "That was yesterday," some delegates called...
It is a muggy August night at the Superdome. Listless Republican delegates have completed the preordained coronation of George Bush as their presidential nominee. Now comes the one moment of drama: the choice of a running mate. Bush strides to the rostrum to break the news. "I want Dole," he...
The police are probably "making an example of someone after the Trenton convention," she said, referring to a convention attended by Princeton Dean of Students Eugene Lowe at which drinking on New Jersey campuses was discussed.
On the Democratic side, Simon faced the fact that he has to win the Illinois primary to keep even his stripped-down campaign alive until the Democratic National Convention in July.