Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israeli Steps. Impatient with the U.N.'s delay, the nine Common Market countries last week pledged to prosecute terrorists or extradite them for trial. Bonn is seeking an international convention to combat terrorist acts that involve the taking of hostages. Israel has begun taking steps too. Israeli Minister of...
Last Midnight. No negotiator, of course, would dream of admitting that publicly. The union will, as always, choose a target company with which to conclude a pattern-setting agreement (the betting in Detroit is that it will be Ford) and doubtless continue talks down to the last midnight. Meanwhile, both...
The candidate was not talking and his aides did not know. So the 5,500 reporters competing for scoops at the Madison Square Garden love-in were unable to find out in advance the identity of Jimmy Carter's running mate. Except for Gilbert Giles. By following up a...
Dark Hall. Giles' adult colleagues had their share of problems in trying to bring to life a historically important but generally suspenseless convention. Some publications reduced the scale of their coverage from 1972's levels. The New York Times, for instance, put 15 reporters inside the hall, about...
Unable to squeeze compelling copy from the desultory doings on the floor, reporters fanned out to interview delegates, their wives and children, hack-ies, bartenders, cloakroom attendants and even hostesses at the free convention-hall bar set up by the railroad lobby to mellow reporters. Gilbert Giles and his young...