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...work of TIME'S correspondents-in the convention hall, at the delegates' meetings, in the candidates' headquarters-will be coordinated at a news desk in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. There Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley, who covers politics in and out of season, will share with Lawrence Laybourne, chief of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian correspondents, the task of making assignments, and of tying together correspondents' reports. By the time the candidate is nominated, TIME'S editors will already have begun culling their own on-the-spot observations to bring you a report...
...housekeeper at Chicago's Conrad Hilton hotel, although outwardly neutral like all the hotel employees, is wearing (according to Ikemen) an Eisenhower button on her slip. That is one of the latest eve-of-battle bulletins from Chicago, as the city braces for C-day amid tornadoes of campaign literature, jungles of telephone wire, rivers of ice water and the thunderous fizz of headache powders...
...Factor. On the Hilton's ninth floor, a huge photograph of Bob Taft proclaims to visitors that they are entering Taft headquarters. Jack Martin (908-A), Taft's executive assistant, is not missing any details. "The elevator service is a big factor," he says. "A lot may depend on whether a delegation can get upstairs...
...platform, where the main press gallery is, 30 noiseless teletype machines will carry running stories as fast as they come from reporters' typewriters. Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, convention headquarters, is another big press room. This, plus the hall's equipment, will enable reporters to file 500,000 words of wire copy an hour. As double insurance, many newspapers have put in their own teletype and telephone lines direct to home offices...
When the 46 members of the Republican Convention arrangements committee settled down in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel last week, the committeemen who like Ike knew that they were outnumbered. The only question was how far the Taft majority would go in naming Taftmen to key positions in the national convention. How far they went was apparent a moment after the session ended. Ikeman Ralph H. Cake, Oregon national committeeman, stomped out of the meeting room and growled: "Yes, they have rigged us, but good...