Word: cobo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month ago in Detroit the allegedly reborn party of Abraham Lincoln and Jesse Helms gathered to crown its champion. Fanatically grateful for any attention, the Motown elders cleared out one end of their city a week before Ronnie's legions arrived. A sticky labor strike evaporated, the streets around Cobo Hall were cleaned, and everyone was so damned nice. New York is just too tired and too grumpy to make such an effort...
...Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rudolph Rauch assembled a group to arrange the complex logistics that convention coverage demands. The swift movement of staffers, information and film required the hiring of 22 messengers and a fleet of 21 cars, as well as the installation in TIME'S pressroom in Cobo Hall of 50 telephones, two telex machines and a link to our computer in Manhattan. Other newsroom amenities: 24 desks, 38 typewriters, six pairs of binoculars and-for the fortunate-a pair of sofas...
DETROIT--By the beginning of the week, things were already getting pretty silly at the Republican National Convention here. A "Betty Boop for President" movement had been parading around Cobo Hall with its candidate since Sunday, and inside a bearded fellow wearing tails insisted that he, Mark Twain, not Ronald Reagan, deserved the GOP's backing...
Ignoring a four-foot spray-painted "NO REAGUN" (sic) message, which appeared on the front of the convention hall despite 24-hour police protection, the messiah from the West marched into Cobo and reminded his disciples, "This is a crusade, not a campaign...
...Campaign--Michigan division for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.)--insist that it was only a coincidence that they opened their Detroit headquarters last Saturday, two days before their former bedmates hit town and just in time to absorb the overflow of media coverage seeping through the walls of Cobo Hall...