Word: cow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fleets of rental cars are streaming into the city. A brigade of some 500 chartered buses will be shuttling constantly between downtown San Francisco and the Cow Palace, 61 miles away...
...well it might be. By conservative estimate, the conventioners will generate $5,000,000 in new business. One who is nonetheless disgruntled is Micheal DeBernardi, 38, the publicity-conscious mayor of Daly City (pop. 57,200) outside San Francisco. Daly City recently annexed the unincorporated area on which the Cow Palace stands. And whatever the handouts say, insists DeBernardi, the Republican Convention is not really being held in San Francisco at all. Welcome to Daly City...
...Chronicle has pledged blanket convention coverage: Count Marco, for example, taking note of the convention site, the Cow Palace, announced plans to examine the herd of delegates and delegates' wives in search of cows. Editorially, the paper greeted Bill Scranton's entry with hearty cheers...
Little Interest. It is William Knowland's Oakland Tribune that may quite possibly be the most thoroughly read local paper in the Cow Palace. The Tribune gave its heart to Barry Goldwater months before the California Republican primary, and has since published scores of editorials calculated to make pleasant reading for the 700-odd delegates who plan to arrive more or less in Goldwater's pocket. Sample Tribune comment: "Because Senator Goldwater is the one candidate who can capture large chunks of Democratic votes without conceding to the Democrats more than a handful of GOP votes...
...yourself (or Ugly) diplomacy, and altogether a leader any computer could love. Can Thatch perhaps be persuaded to run? Author Burdick takes 313 pages of whirring, humming, and blowing of tubes to come up with an answer and makes next week's real-life drama at the Cow Palace seem, by comparison, as orderly and rational as a convention of geometry teachers...