Word: confetti
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...week's climax came on Kennedy's own home grounds of Boston. Wet confetti showered on Pat and Dick, cheers echoed through the damp, narrow streets from Bostonians lined six to eight deep, and many broke ranks to chase after his car. Police numbered the throng at an extravagant 250,000, yet it was undoubtedly the biggest street turnout anywhere in the campaign...
Wiping away the confetti, Nixon unloosed a low-key attack on Democratic liberalism that moved his audience of Southern conservatives to rebel yells. Said he: "It is time for the Democratic candidates to quit taking the South for granted, and it is time for the Republican candidates to quit conceding the South to the Democrats without a battle." To the conservative Southerners he pictured the Democrats, Northern style, as a party that wants "to progress through spending billions more of the people's money, through increasing the functions, the size and the power of the Federal Government." Echoing...
...banner at the airport proclaimed, "It's Nixon Day in Atlanta." Changing downtown from a closed to an open car, Pat and Dick suddenly found themselves on a ten-block parade route that was choked with 150,000 people. For the second time, the Nixons were bombarded with confetti, pulled and pawed by enthusiastic Atlantans, who broke past Secret Service men to reach for a hand shake...
...himself was well over his peeve by the time he landed in Chicago to take his bows. Again, from hotel and office windows, the confetti poured down in torrents ("It's a different kind; it really sticks," he gasped. "It sticks and it chokes," replied Nixon), and Chicagoans as well as the Republican conventioneers tore loose in a huge, cacophonous reception that visibly left Ike bubbling. In the quiet of his suite, Ike and Mamie got together with the Nixons for a photo fest and a few informal greetings. (Pat Nixon, shaking Mamie's hand, said, "I shook...
...performance and ratings by NBC at Los Angeles, CBS pulled out all stops to recoup in Chicago. Its oracles tried to capture some of the colloquial ease that made NBC's Huntley and Brinkley outstanding; when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived...