Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real work of conventions has always been accomplished in smoke-filled suites, in ballroom corners and anterooms, on couches in the lobby, over drinks...
Scanlon declined at first, but relented when Lloyd's of London agreed to insure its depredations. Three elephants at a time in the Waldorf ballroom have presented no problem, and three others are scheduled to be present at the Associated General Contractors convention in Bloomington, Minn., this winter. Sheraton-Waikiki Convention Service Manager Allan Woodrow recalls the day he was asked to accommodate a dead body for a gathering of morticians: it was sneaked in on a service elevator so none of the regular guests would become alarmed...
...hire Soprano Leontyne Price, Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment. The Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers ten "theme packages" for the concluding blowout, including Monte Carlo night, rodeo parties, an Arabian Nights banquet and a Tom Jones party, in which the ballroom is filled with trees, grass, live pigs, chickens, llamas and a tame tiger, while guests gnaw on turkey drumsticks and slurp wine out of goatskin bags. One group had an Arabian Nights party for its mostly male membership and held an auction of comely young "slave girls." Just as the successful...
...discreetly dispersed among other nearby first-class hotels. A.T.A. staffers spent 250 hours compiling 2-in. by 4-in. index cards with information on each member and each supplier, his company, even his wife. Thus the planners ensured that at the daily luncheons in the Grand Ballroom, trucking-company executives were strategically interspersed with suppliers' representatives; competitive firms were well separated...
...combo, plus dance instructors to help unlimber the foxtrot generation; Thermo King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon Ballroom, where a giant golden statue of its famous symbol, a bulldog, was displayed on the stage like an Inca god. At each convention Mack gives away 4,000 stuffed bulldogs, each year a little different; they are considered collectors' items. As a host at the Sears, Roebuck disco room...