Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That may be an exaggeration, although Kansas City's fiercely chauvinistic boosters do not think so. Unfortunately, many of the 22,000 people swarming into Kansas City, Mo., next week for the G.O.P. Convention will not see the best of the town. The new 17,000-seat, $23.2 million...
Kansas City has festooned itself with red, white and blue bunting for the convention. Practically everything in town seems to smell of fresh paint, including such bump-and-grind joints along Twelfth Street as the Pink Door (a new coat of pink, naturally) and the Can-Can Club (mauve and...
The only discord involves possible demonstrations. The Kansas City Convention Coalition, a mixed bag of protesters ranging from homosexuals to Yippies and anarchists, requested a permit to camp out in Penn Valley Park, a large expanse just behind the Crown Center, where President Ford will be staying. The city refused...
Damn Right. The city hopes to gross about $8 million on the convention, a good return on an investment of only $500,000. Frugal Democratic Mayor Charles Wheeler plans to recover even some of that money. When the convention is over, the 4-ft.-long sounding block on which the...
"The more peace the better," says Arizona Congressman John Rhodes, who will serve as permanent chairman of next week's Republican Convention. "I'd like to have it as dull as the Democrats did." Rhodes is unlikely to get his wish. In fact, preventing the convention from degenerating...