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Voting belatedly, Florida's delegates split, 38 to 28, but that was enough to put Ford over the top. The 16c amendment was dead. From his control position on the floor, the normally soft-spoken Griffin shouted, "That dood it! That's it! That's it!" Final count: 1,180 no, 1,069 yes, 10 abstain...
Betty prevailed on Tuesday, however, as the efficient Ford floor command passed the signal and delegates were ready with hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the band broke into TV Star Tony Orlando's hit song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild...
...electronic push into the business of the convention did not go unnoticed-or unpunished. Just before the balloting on 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...
...their own impatience during boring stretches of both 1976 conventions, they may wonder about the public's reaction. Can it be that there now exists a two-tiered public response to politics as well as to baseball: a few political fans who will follow the fight over rule 16c as avidly as baseball nuts study box scores, while everybody else is at best only tepidly curious to hear how the game finally came...
...University of Minnesota union, which the delegates investigated, feeds an average of 2,500 men daily. The cost of meals is 16c to 18c for breakfast, 32c for the noonday meal, 28c for dinner...