Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The most lavish affair was thrown by Candy Tycoon Charles H. Price II and his wife Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of...
Tom Ellis felt doublecrossed. It was nearly 2 a.m., and the chairman of the North Carolina delegation had asked for a roll-call vote on a pro-Reagan foreign policy amendment to the Republican platform, when pro-Ford Convention Chairman John Rhodes ordered a voice vote and gaveled the session...
Except the nation never saw it. CBS's Lesley Stahl ran up, shouting "Mister, who are you?" and other network reporters witnessed Ellis' rage. But the TV cameras had already homed in on the anchor men for closing comments. Much of the week was like that. In spectacular...
Too many of the convention's best moments, however, came while television looked the other way. All three networks missed seeing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller set off a near fistfight when he grabbed a North Carolina delegate's Reagan placard. While New York Senator Jacob Javits delivered the...
Not that the three networks did not try. Altogether they spent some $12 million in Kansas City, and accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 9,500 journalists and support troops. CBS alone assembled a fleet of 400 rental cars for its staff of 650. NBC finished off a half...