Word: bellmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Staging a mammoth convention is as much an exercise in diplomacy as logistics. Telephone operators, bellmen and maids were given lists of VIPS' names. Since the Hilton could accommodate only 2,400 of the delegates, the less important visitors had to be 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...
...Oklahoma City IRS office turned Bellmon down for sound bureaucratic reasons: the agents were too busy audit ing current returns. Despite Bellmen's good intentions, the IRS decision was probably wise; certifying the Senator as clean could have set a precedent for an expanding search for seals of approval...