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From 1528 onwards, the King-whose sharp little eyes, scrolled mouth and drooping wedge of a nose survive in many effigies-set up court in a manor at Fontainebleau. To it Francis brought some of the best Italian artists of the day: Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Primaticcio and Niccolo dell'Abate. Even Benvenuto Cellini spent several years, from 1540 to 1545, in the King's employment, making statues and, as a culmination of his skill as a goldsmith, the famous gold saltcellar (now in Vienna) that he finished in 1543. The Italians' work set a new cultural norm...
...underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth, who ran a souvenir booth in the lobby of the Fontainebleau Hotel last week. Two exceptions: button sellers did a brisk business, and some delicatessens did well during the Democratic gathering. "You would be surprised how many Democrats came in to buy bread and cold cuts to take to their rooms," says one counterman...
...only hospitality suite in town guarded by armed, uniformed detectives was operated by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President on the sixth floor of the Fontainebleau's new south wing. There, in three adjoining rooms, the G.O.P. set up an observation post with seven telephone lines, an A.P. ticker, a supply of liquor, hors d'oeuvres, and 18 uniformed "Nixonettes." Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and Colorado Governor John Love came by to keep tab on the opposition. So did some Democrats, mostly Wallace supporters. After two days of operation, the hired guards changed into more casual clothes...
Crammed into curtained cubbyholes off the convention floor or within the makeshift press headquarters in the garage of the Fontainebleau Hotel, correspondents filed well over a million words a day-250,000 alone by the Associated Press staff of 200. Besides the reporters from U.S. dailies, reporters descended on Miami Beach from 64 foreign countries, including nine from the Soviet Union; all manner of underground publications, from Rolling Stone to the Berkeley Barb; and 206 college papers, some with copy deadlines as distant as the start of the fall term...
...Skinner, manager of Vero Beach's Driftwood Inn, has a happy complaint: "Our business is up 20% from last year, and our rear ends are really dragging." Miami Beach's Hotel Fontainebleau posted a record 90% occupancy rate from November through April. This month it has booked an unprecedented five conventions-each taking up 1,000 rooms-and recently it turned down a booking for October 1977-because all rooms are already sold out. Earlier this year some hoteliers overbooked so egregiously that they had to turn away irate tourists who had confirmed reservations. In February, 150 people...