Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAMES BUCKLEY, 53, would have won the convention booby prize had Schweiker not pre-empted it. New York's Republican-Conservative junior Senator permitted an abortive effort to win support for himself as an alternative to Ford or Reagan, thus diminishing his prime asset: an image as a non...
ROBERT GRIFFIN, 52, one of Ford's closest advisers, earned new luster and is certain to be a Republican power no matter what happens in November. The Michigan Senator's adept direction of Ford's intricate convention floor operation was praised by the newly nominated President: "Bob...
A slow journey down the red shag aisles of the Republican Convention was like a tour that Ken Baker of Jackson, Tenn., might have set up in his travel agency to show off postcard America.
Here and there were a leering face and a defiant bellow, but for the most part the convention was a scene of restrained certitude, the firm jaw-set of people who run things and have things. Ken Baker used to be a teacher, but the vision of affluence and independence...
Some 2,800 volunteers of the Kansas City Host Committee (including many Democrats) arranged for 200 families to put up reporters and visitors who were unable to find hotel space. The committee also set up booths in big hotels to help visitors find their way around and provided tours of...