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TIME went to the 31st Republican Convention with a squadron of editors, writers, correspondents and researchers. From the opening gavel on Monday to the oratorical wind-up on Thursday, we found ourselves in a Kansas City that was boiling-climatically and politically. Despite the heat, the noise and the crunch on the crowded floor, our staffers were everywhere in the Kemper Arena covering the most exciting G.O.P. gathering since 1964. Many of them are pictured here in action...
...Right. The city hopes to gross about $8 million on the convention, a good return on an investment of only $500,000. Frugal Democratic Mayor Charles Wheeler plans to recover even some of that money. When the convention is over, the 4-ft.-long sounding block on which the gavel is pounded will be cut up into 2½-in. chips and placed on commemorative plaques. Price: $100 each. Does Wheeler, a good Democrat, plan to buy one? Says he: "Damn right. Every family needs...
...seemed to ensure her early departure. But the gentle mother of three and grandmother of five proved to have staying power. When the convention is called to order at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, Ford backer Mary Louise Smith, a native of Eddyville, Iowa, will be wielding the gavel...
Even so, the lordly fellows in the booths turned away from the platform at will, as usual feeling no need to carry every seconding speech or prayer. They might announce "gavel to gavel" coverage, but they felt free to ram in all those commercials or just to chat on-camera. Television, once the pushy guest in the hall, has taken over. Such a development used to disturb political scientists, who remember how influential was television's 1968 crosscutting between demonstrators outside and an apoplectic Mayor Daley inside. This time television was guilty of only minor attempts at hype...
Part of the problem is Jimmy Carter, whose early capture of the Democratic presidential nomination removed virtually all suspense from the convention, except perhaps for the vice-presidential selection. Another reason will be ABC's offer of an alternative. Since 1968, the network has rejected gavel-to-gavel coverage in favor of a couple of hours of filmed and taped highlights and late-night live action. "Edited coverage," network officials call that abbreviated schedule, and at the last Democratic convention it paid off well. While CBS and NBC were carrying the usual speeches, floor demonstrations and mid-aisle interviews...