Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tom Ellis felt doublecrossed. It was nearly 2 a.m., and the chairman of the North Carolina delegation had asked for a roll-call vote on a pro-Reagan foreign policy amendment to the Republican platform, when pro-Ford Convention Chairman John Rhodes ordered a voice vote and gaveled the session to a close. Reagan delegations exploded in anger. Screamed Ellis: "Railroaded! You have broken the rules!" It was one of the most dramatic moments of last week's Republican National Convention...
...rule 16c, Temporary Convention Chairman Robert Dole ordered reporters off the floor, while the delegates cheered. CBS Floor Producer Don Hewitt immediately phoned Dole to protest, but television reporters and their bulky equipment were not back clogging the aisles at full strength for nearly an hour. When NBC Reporter Tom Pettit's earphone antenna was banged and bent by an unidentified flying object during a Wednesday-night Ford demonstration, David Brinkley remarked: "You get ten points for hitting a reporter. There have been conventions in the past where you got 20 points...
...vacation condominiums have doubled in price, and rates at many resorts have increased by 80% or more. Though occupancy rates in the resort industry as a whole have been rising lately, they remain low in many places, which means that costly facilities are not always in full use. Says Tom Perine, president of Vacation Planning Inc. of Richmond, Ill., the largest timesharing promoter in the U.S.: "Timesharing in the computer industry was the only cost-effective way to utilize superexpensive equipment. We are bringing that concept to resorts...
...probably remember that in 1972, Bennington College hired Gail Parker, an assistant professor of history and literature at Harvard, and her husband Tom (she at $22,500, he at $18,000) and then last January fired them. Ephron has filled in the details and provided a rare glimpse of the inner workings of a small elite college, with marvelous dialogue and excellent bit parts. As Ephron tells it, Bennington (600 students) is full of articulate, liberated eccentrics isolated in Vermont's Green Mountains. Sounds...
...Parkers are bemused by the Volvo station wagon in the middle of Frankenthaler's studio, virtually speechless, and slowly beginning to realize that Bennington is serious about them as candidates. A month later, the couple is chosen and introduced to the students at commencement as "Gail and Tom." Scene fades as the commencement "speaker," a black jazz musician (obviously either sloshed or stoned) gets up to play a bass solo. Close-up of Gail: a look of amazement. "What have we done?" she asks herself...