Word: ronald
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...last week's Republican National Committee meeting, the delegates resoundingly defeated the bid by a black woman, Dr. Gloria Toote, a supporter of Ronald Reagan, for the party's co-chairmanship. The 118-to-37 result primarily reflected incumbent Mary Crisp's first-rate performance, not racial division. Still, before the vote, one G.O.P. leader explained his preference for Crisp by noting: "We're getting Jesse Jackson tomorrow. That's enough...
...squad took on a bit of glamour in Denver with the arrival of Ronald Reagan, who made the canal a major issue in his 1976 presidential campaign. Once again, the crowd needed little convincing, and Reagan derided claims that opposition to the treaties was faltering, calling them "hogwash." The crew then headed for its last stop, Portland...
Logan airport was closed from 8 a.m. Friday until 12 p.m. Saturday as crews "struggled to clear six foot drifts from runways," Ronald C. Brimm, a Massport spokesman, said yesterday...
...month is not drama but dance, as MIT, in conjunction with the recently-formed Boston Repertory Ballet, presents A Week of Ballet, culminating in a performance at MIT's Kresge Auditorium at 8 on Saturday, January 28. The evening will feature special guest artists Lydia Abarca and Ronald Perry of the Dance Theater of Harlem in pas de deux from the virtuoso "Le Corsaire" and the Balanchine-Stravinsky "Agon," as well as the Repertory company in Antony Tudor's "Soiree Musicale," Director Samuel Kurkjian's snappy "Speed Zone", and the world premiere of a new Kurkjian work, "A Cole Porter...
Encyclopedias from Pliny's Historia naturalis of A.D. 77 to the contemporary Britannica have sought to distill the sum of human knowledge. Now British Playwright Ronald Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...