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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...
...Pictures, Please. Downtown in the Loop, cops were stationed on every corner and in the middle of every block. Federal agents were assigned to the roof, main corridors, kitchen and service areas of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, headquarters of the convention, where three candidates-Vice President Hum phrey, Eugene McCarthy and Georgia's Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were...
...education that he can absorb." Equally attractive was the declared "right of every American to as healthy a life as modern medicine can provide." The N.M.A. had won a different sort of recognition earlier in the week simply by meeting in Houston, where its presence at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, and even in its pool, elevated some eyebrows. "I don't know what the whites are scared of," said one Negro doctor. "These are their kind of people. There are more Toms here than on a turkey farm...
...Hilton is concerned, the only thing sinful is that no respectable midtown hotel has done it sooner. Airport motels and hotels have long offered day rates (usually half-price between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.) to travelers who want to rest between flights. The Hilton's "Day-Hour Plan" ($12 for the first three hours, $3 an hour thereafter), which went into effect last week, is a logical next step. It is intended to make life easier and less expensive for today's jet-borne businessman, who often zips in and out of two or three cities...
...hotel, the plan is an obvious way of increasing the occupancy rate, especially during the slack summer season. If the New York experiment is successful (more than 25 people had taken advantage of the hourly rates by noon of the first day), Hilton intends to put it into effect in other U.S. hotels...