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...delegates from voting on other contests, a Taft strategist suggested that they could raise a point of order because the motion included seven Louisiana delegates, whose cases had been settled by the state committee. In a hasty conference, the Taftmen decided to raise the point, and to let Guy Gabrielson, then presiding, uphold it. Then, if the Ikemen wanted to seat their seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much harder time arguing against the chair than for what they...
...Bricker had moved to adopt the 1948 rules, and the Eisenhower forces had offered a substitute motion-the now-celebrated Langlie amendment (providing that delegations contested by more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order. That was Ohio's paunchy Representative Clarence Brown, who had badly managed Taft...
...offered a motion to amend the Eisenhower forces' amendment. Brown later said that he got the impression that Gabrielson, worried about criticism, might overrule a point of order. If Gabrielson sustained Brown's point, the convention might overrule the chair, and old Politico Brown didn't want that to happen to a friend...
...delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's stand known as the teleprompter (which spells out a prepared speech line for line on a moving band). Said he, in a political cliche with a hard core of truth: "The fate of the world is in the hands of these delegates...
...Peepie-Creepie. Most startling TV innovation was a portable camera known as the walkie-lookie, or peepie-creepie, with which the enterprising TV reporter could sneak up to Mr. Delegate and catch him yelling his head off or scratching his nose. Early in the convention, Guy Gabrielson spotted one of them on the floor and cried: "There's a talkie-walkie. No talkie-walkie allowed on the floor-no sir!" Another innovation: the periscope camera, which technicians maneuvered to get shots above the heads of the crowd...