Word: auditorium
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...local residents $20 an hour in cash to distribute and collect the ballots. Keith Dinsmore, Gephardt's Iowa communications director, cut the deal with Ken Robinson, publisher of the tiny (circ. 1,500) Bayard News. At a late-afternoon dress rehearsal at the Starlite Village hotel, adjacent to the auditorium, Robinson sat quietly while Dinsmore instructed Drake University students and a handful of other paid recruits on how to poll the 8,000 Democrats expected for the event...
...night of the dinner, Gephardt's local organizers seemed well positioned to win: they filled the auditorium with hundreds of red-capped supporters to counter reports of a stalled campaign. Gephardt admitted that he "would like to have a straw poll." Meanwhile his campaign's hirelings, posing as agents of the newspaper, handed out scores of buff-colored ballots to arriving Democrats...
That's when state party officials stepped in and ordered the police to disperse the unauthorized pollsters. Later a disappointed Dinsmore buttonholed a top Gephardt official inside the auditorium. "Our poll had to be aborted," he reported excitedly...
Harvard, 5-0 at Meehan Auditorium Providence, R.I. Harvard 3-1-1--5 Brown...
King said other projects--including the Hynes Auditorium with its $300 million deficit--have made the bill unattractive to the Ways and Means Committee, which may keep the bill in committee rather than present it to the full House...