Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disputed Challenges. Humphrey's rivals, particularly McCarthy, did their best to turn the Credentials Committee hearings to their advantage. In Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel ballroom, a record 1,000 delegates from 14 states were challenged on grounds ranging from racial discrimination to improper selection procedures. McCarthy hoped to increase his delegate strength by preventing hundreds of Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground...
...shabby old convention hall was turned into a bastion, secure from ground, air, and even subterranean attack. All entrances were sealed on the Halsted Street side of the building. Owners of buildings near by were ordered to keep windows closed for the duration of the convention-a consider able inconvenience in a Chicago August. Policemen with guns, walkie-talkies and binoculars were posted atop the amphitheatre. Protected by barbed wire screens, National Guard jeeps looked as if they were heading for jungle combat...
...inability to return to hotel because of trans portation problems), bottled water (should yippies manage to turn on the Chicago water supply with a lacing of LSD or other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries where delegates are staying would be garnished with ground glass), ham radio (no phone service), walkie-talkie (if radio fails), chrysanthemums (for flower power if cornered by militant hippies), first-aid kit, gross of aspirin, and finally, a passepartout, collectively endorsed by A.D.A., Y.I.P., the Geneva Conference, Mayor Daley, the Black Panthers and Interpol, certifying that the bearer...
...that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
Likely to Quit. Having retreated from positions that the Big Board once vowed to defend, the exchange's Bob Haack gave no further ground in last week's testimony in Washington. He accused the Justice Department of "applying theoretical concepts without supporting facts." Unregulated rates, he said, would cause brokers to switch a good deal of trading from the exchange floor to their offices, creating splintered markets in which ordinary investors would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal...