Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers, correspondents and researchers. From the opening gavel on Monday to the oratorical wind-up on Thursday, we found ourselves in a Kansas City that was boiling-climatically and politically. Despite the heat, the noise and the crunch on the crowded floor, our staffers were everywhere in the Kemper Arena covering the most exciting G.O.P. gathering since 1964. Many of them are pictured here in action...
...hall earlier to a resounding ovation, there were rhythmic cries of "Speech! Speech! Speech!" Invited to the podium by Chairman Rhodes, Reagan initially declined. "This is someone else's night," he said to friends. But now he responded to Ford's beckoning. As he moved through the packed arena with Nancy, then took the microphone at Ford's bidding, the eyes of many delegates shimmered with tears...
...Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, are not only attending the convention-as they have done in the past-but this year are remaining in Kansas City after the fighting is over to write, edit and check the section and, in effect, send it to press from there. On the Kemper Arena floor, in the middle of the convention uproar, and at delegate caucuses as they take place around town, 15 TIME correspondents are covering developments and then heading back to our 2,000-sq.-ft. workroom at the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, a mile away, to write their files...
Hotel. He could instantly reach his floor manager, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, seated at a command post in the convention's Kemper Arena. Griffin, in turn, would direct eleven regional whips on the floor and key Ford operatives in every delegation. Any slippage in expected voting patterns would lead to a quick request to poll the offending delegation, giving the Ford men tune to try to close the breach...
Reagan, too, planned to reach Kansas City early, settling into the sweeping elegance of the Alameda Plaza to wage his eleventh-hour fight to prevent an early Ford victory. His campaign manager, John Sears, would direct operations from a 50-ft. trailer outside the glistening arena, working the convention floor through Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and a batch of assistants. Both camps had their carefully prepared charts on how each delegate might vote-and they were poised to pounce on anyone who deviated from the expected. After nine long months of campaign labors, no one last week could be sure...