Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks plan to cover the nominating proceedings at San Francisco's Cow Palace until the last ballot is counted. CBS is using four times as much manpower and equipment as in 1960, features 22 on-the-scene correspondents, including Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Reporters Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid. NBC has brought 60 tons of equipment, is building four complete studios, and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley will be bolstered by Floor Reporters John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In addition to Pundits Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan, ABC viewers can benefit at least twice a day from...
...Hopkins Hotel, scores of eager workers performed their appointed tasks-from drafting speeches to ordering cookie and fruit between-meals snacks for the candidate. A complex communications network had been in stalled-including a 15-circuit phone switchboard, and a special "hot line" system linking hotel headquarters to the Cow Palace convention floor and to two communications trailers parked outside. Code words were used in tele phone conversations to confuse possible eavesdroppers, and the whole headquarters area had been combed for electronic bugs that Goldwater gumshoes might have concealed...
...Chicago News devoted twelve column inches to NBC's plan to use ultraviolet-light transmitters in the Cow Palace. THE BATTLE OF COMPUTERS: A TV THRILLER, headlined the Detroit Free Press. In New York, under a no-surprise headline-NETWORK CARAVANS CARRY TV GADGETS AND MEN TO COAST G.O.P. RALLY-the Times totted up the logistics of the move: 1,500 TV hands, nearly 50 miles of cable for NBC alone...
...chartered buses from the Cow Palace to San Francisco last night, in the halls of the former campaign headquarters, and wherever they gathered. Scranton devotees were predicting a difficult and perhaps disastrous campaign...
...FRANCISCO, July 13--Thousands of delegates, alternates, and visitors at the 28th Republican National Convention made the six-mile trip to the Cow Palace today to listen to a full bill of bounteous and turgid oratory. An obvious disinterest pervaded the opening session of the convention...