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Your typical convention opens on a Sunday, gently, with late-afternoon registration and an icebreaker cocktail party. Who said cocktail parties have to be dull? The American Dietetic Association, meeting last fall in New Orleans, added a bit of drama to its opening reception by hiring sword balancers, portrait artists, strolling musicians?48 acts...
...opening plenary session, which usually includes some reminder that the attendees are, of course, professionals with higher motivations than individual gain. Then the group moves into smaller rooms, called "breakout rooms" by hotel officials, for discussions of particular topics. Delegates typically reassemble at a working lunch, a late-afternoon reception and a dinner, every day until check-out time. There is a growing tendency to pack convention schedules tightly, for reasons of both productivity and social control; organizers want to keep delegates present and working. not wandering off to see the sights on their own. Says Sig Front, a senior...
...inconvenient moment for late-afternoon callers. Frankfurt Banker Jurgen Ponto, 53, and his wife Ines were packing to catch a vacation flight to Rio de Janeiro. Still, the visitor was special -Susanne Albrecht, 26, Ponto's godchild and the daughter of a Hamburg lawyer who had been his boyhood friend. She was bearing a bouquet of red roses. So it was that the chairman of the Dresdener Bank, West Germany's second largest, stopped packing long enough to receive Albrecht at his 30-room villa in the wealthy Frankfurt suburb of Oberursel. With her through the iron gate...
Small Cache. Three weeks ago, Nguyen, his family and six other people made an audacious getaway from Danang in broad daylight. Pretending to start out on a lazy, late-afternoon pleasure excursion, they headed for the Philippines. They took with them a small cache of weapons accumulated during the war; the refugees intended to fight it out, if necessary, with Communist patrols that capture eight out of every ten escape boats...
...late-afternoon traffic jam clogged the Via Nazionale outside, Archbishop Coggan spoke challengingly to a congregation of Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy from the gothic pulpit of the American Episcopal Church of St. Paul. In announcing his desire for a shared communion now, the Archbishop argued that the churches face "an evangelistic task whose size escalates with the multiplying millions. 'Talk to us about reconciliation,' a skeptical world says to us, 'when you yourselves are reconciled.' " Noting that in many areas of the world Anglicans and Catholics already drink from the same chalice, Coggan asked...