Word: doral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invitation to "Have Your Next Affair Here," past the ubiquitous Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, past the Eden Roc Hotel with its plaster version of the Winged Victory of Samothrace crated for protection against radicals and art vandals. After the turn up Collins Avenue, the road ends at the Doral, McGovern Headquarters and purveyors of bathrooms so mirrored as to enable Frank Mankiewicz to view the performance of all his major biological functions simultaneously from four different angles...
MIAMI BEACH--The transformation which by late yesterday had turned the Doral from a plush resort hotel to Senator George McGovern's frantic campaign headquarters began here Saturday...
...press conference immediately following his arrival. McGovern told reporters at the Doral there could be no compromise on the California challenge which threatens 151 of his delegates. "The American sense of fair play and rule of law are now in the hands of delegates," he said, but he also said he was confident that he would...
Sunday night, the McGovern staff poured into the Doral Hotel for yet another staff meeting, and a late reading on the programs made that day. It became difficult to get elevators, and when they came they were filled with McGovern staffers who wore white staff buttons, good only for the mezzanine operations room, and the coveted red staff buttons which get you onto the 16th floor...
Throughout Sunday night and yesterday, McGovern volunteers were left to mimeograph, find and call. Onlookers milled in the brilliantly lit lobby of the Doral admist the fake Louis XIV furniture, and the McGovern staff, high stop the green glass flanks of the hotel, directed the massive California effort which groped frantically through every bleached hotel lobby along the beach