Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the marathon credentials session, the convention took on an air of inexorability. At noon on Tuesday, "because I can count," Humphrey withdrew his name from the race. Fighting back tears, comforting his wife Muriel, Humphrey told reporters: "This has been a good fight." At 61, it was Humphrey's...
The delegates listened to a parade of pleas for platform planks by homosexuals, advocates of abortion, and welfare organizers. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, wearing a button reading TAKE THE RICH OFF WELFARE, argued for radical tax reform?a plank the convention rejected. Hour after hour, the session ground on, with...
Landslides. Some 30 firms-including AT&T, IBM, Gulf Oil, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler-have faced proxy challenges from environmentalists, civil rights activists, consumer advocates and church groups. Other corporations, like McDonnell Douglas and Continental Oil, have had to cope with demonstrations against company policies or last-minute proposals...
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In all, 3,000 delegates from 142 countries met for five weeks in a new $10 million building, which had been specially put up for them by the nearly broke Chilean government. They listened to 1,120 hours of speeches, mostly impassioned...
Why the Times'? The paper's twin coup was the result of several elements. Its correspondents have been admirably persistent in knocking on the Bamboo Curtain; Lewis had been trying to get into Hanoi for two years, and from his London base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese...