Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dairy-intensive recipes; the National Association of Tobacco Distributors requests hotels to remove all their NO SMOKING signs for the duration. The Mothers of Twins asked the Sheraton-Boston for free baby-sitting services, but the hotel found that request too taxing. Chicago's Lurye says he has bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted a man hanging over the balcony of an Acapulco hotel screaming, "Help! My wife ran out of birth control pills...
Your typical convention opens on a Sunday, gently, with late-afternoon registration and an icebreaker cocktail party. Who said cocktail parties have to be dull? The American Dietetic Association, meeting last fall in New Orleans, added a bit of drama to its opening reception by hiring sword balancers, portrait artists...
Most association and company meetings have a theme, something self-evident and mildly inspiring, like "Change Is Our Greatest Challenge," or "A Taste of the Eighties." The theme is stated at an opening plenary session, which usually includes some reminder that the attendees are, of course, professionals with higher motivations...
A good convention, like a good novel, has rising and falling action and a socko conclusion that leaves customers eager to return next time. The International Fiscal Association spent $20,000 to hire Soprano Leontyne Price, Conductor Arthur Fiedler and the National Symphony Orchestra for the final evening's entertainment...
Despite the best-programmed efforts of convention planners, association executives, sergeants at arms, hotel officials, headwaiters, maintenance men and the army of other major and minor domos needed to conduct a convention, things do go bump in the night. And the morning, and the afternoon. In 1975 the American Bankers...