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...Democratic National Convention, the 5,000 delegates and alternates-as well as roughly 15,000 party workers, families, journalists and hangers-on-may have a considerably less magical view of New York. For one thing, most are taking in the city from the scruffy perspective of Madison Square Garden's environs, and the first impression will not be good. It is a mean and somewhat scrofulous West Side neighborhood, not far from the old Hell's Kitchen. Skells, panhandlers and a brigade of whores are working the streets, trying to avoid the 1,200 uniformed cops...
This week's convention is the first that either party has held in New York since 1924, when the Democrats nominated John W. Davis on the 103rd ballot in an earlier incarnation of the Garden. The impecunious city government has invested some $3.5 million in the convention, hoping for a return of more than $20 million in business for New York. Among other things, the city is counting on the convention to help repair New York's soiled image, in much the way that the immense and almost unexpectedly peaceful Fourth of July celebrations...
Inside the Garden, delegates and others are somewhat less crammed together than subway straphangers in rush hour. The oval arena has considerably less floor space than, for example, the hall used at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and everyone is getting along with about one-quarter of the working area normally expected at a convention. The delegates are seated in close array in the center of the arena. Behind them in the first and second loges are the alternates; then, in steeply ascending galleries, politicians and guests. Long desks for the writing press flank the specially built 12-ft.-high...
...convention is fairly dry in more ways than one. The Democratic National Committee decreed that no liquor or beer can be sold inside the Garden. The Democrats are also doing without balloons, streamers and other traditional convention frills-though of course Carter fans may bring their own confetti into the Garden. Even with a "clean convention," it costs more than $8,000 a night to sweep up after the delegates...
There are phone links from the suite to the floor of the Garden, 20 blocks away. Though victory is assured, Carter has roughly a dozen staff members on the floor and "designated delegates" in a number of key delegations to see that everything goes smoothly. Says Press Secretary Jody Powell: "You never take anything for granted...