Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative...
From its unlikely beginning at what became known as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, the U.S. Protestant missionary movement has depended on collegiate enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm is increasing at a remarkable rate. Last week, as the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship held its eleventh triennial Missionary Convention, a record 16,000...
But Carter also begins with many factors in his favor, beyond his intelligence and tenacity. Reports TIME's Washington bureau chief, Hugh Sidey: "He does not come to power shaded by a folk hero, as John Kennedy did, and there is no immediate international or national crisis to make or...
Joining the Howard Law faculty, Harris increasingly devoted her energies to Democratic politics. At the 1964 convention she seconded Lyndon Johnson's nomination; later she served him as the nation's first black female ambassador-to Luxembourg. By 1970 she was a partner in a blue-chip Washington...
The mayor's worst moments came during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago was swamped with protesters, and Daley's cops moved on them with clubs flying. In convention hall, Daley imperiously called the shots; when the proceedings offended him, the mayor cut off his mike and signaled adjournment...