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...said about the college press at last week's Democratic Convention. One point is obvious; the Democratic National Committee did not want us there. My first realization of our second-class stature came when I picked up my credentials at the Statler Hilton, across the street from the Garden. I was told beforehand by mimeographed letter that I was to be part of the "special press" gallery, but given no further inkling to the particulars of my status. But while I was stepping out of the elevator I spotted a magic-markered poster tacked on the wall: "weeklies, college press...
...pink pass did allow us to circle a "news-perimeter" above the level in the Garden where the alternates sat. Simply to get into the convention you would first be checked by about 20 different security people including several cops outside the Garden, DNC people and ushers at all seven levels of escalators, and the secret service and more DNC flunkies inside the hall. The guards at the alternate level were instructed to look out for pink newsmen descending. Few, even reporters with friends among the patronage-holders, could maneuver past the perimeter wall. While waiting you could drum...
...band had just finished about his 15th round of "Happy Days Are Here Again," and yet he was still willing to compare the event favorably to some bar mitzvahs and other affairs he's been playing lately. "It's exciting to see the VIPs," he said. Madison Square Garden President Michael Burke, however, the man best suited to compare this event to others at the arena, admitted that a Knicks game would have created a more enthusiastic crowd. Spotted Wednesday night in the highest bleachers, Burke said, "it's boring," while surveying the happiness downstairs...
Four Horsepersons. Either way, the networks will have to hustle to hold a crowd that already knows who the winner at Madison Square Garden will be. To add some contentiousness, ABC has signed up Senator Barry Goldwater as a commentator (Senator George McGovern will play a similar role at the Republican convention). ABC already has a drawerful of short (less than four minutes), filmed feature stories on such topics as Jimmy Carter's advisers, a smalltown delegate's impressions of New York City, and the nightmarish 1924 convention, for use when tedium swamps the podium...
Some of the week's most unusual convention action may come when the dozen network floor reporters-accompanied by cameramen, relief correspondents and producers-slug it out with 3,000 other journalists and 5,000 delegates and alternates for breathing space on the claustrophobic Madison Square Garden floor (30,000 sq. ft., or about half the size of a football field). "There might be a few ripped trousers and coats. There might be a few bumps and bruises," says NBC'S Pettit. Of course, some kind of action like that may be necessary to keep the nomination...