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...Jimmy Carter tried to describe one of his worst nightmares, he might report that he had imagined seeing a group of Arab oil ministers waving AK-47 Soviet rifles above their heads and dancing like dervishes on the tennis court of the Hilton Hotel in Abu Dhabi. The reason for their jubilation, in this nightmare, was that they had just engineered a huge increase in the price of crude oil. Unfortunately, this was no Arabian Nights fantasy but sobering reality last week. Several Arab ministers really did take part in a "Dance of the Rifles" to celebrate the sixth price...
Nobody was surprised in Vernon Parish (pop. 41,204), which has long been known for its heavy "commercial" vote, that is votes for sale. Admits William Charles Hilton, vice president of the Vernon Parish police jury, the equivalent of a county commissioner: "I wouldn't have won without it. You've got to have the commercial vote...
...think I've died and gone to heaven," sighed a portly conventioneer at the New York Hilton's Rhinelander Gallery. He was not, as the conventional wisdom might suggest, fondling a blond or slurping a Scotch. He was excavating a nut-topped jamoca almond fudge, his choice from 32 cholesteroliferous varieties of ice cream dispensed at a 200-ft. bar by Detroit Diesel Allison during the four-day American Trucking Association's convention in October. The ice cream spectacular, with miniskirted waitresses, straw-hatted scoopers and a candy-striped orchestra, was only one of the multitudinous extravaganzas...
Most of the 6,500 registered guests were affluent, to say the least, and 75% of them came with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards, the A.T.A. provided 35 officers. The New York police department detached some plainclothesmen and mounted patrolmen to monitor the portals. This was something of a departure for the N.Y.P.D., but the convention after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself...
Staging a mammoth convention is as much an exercise in diplomacy as logistics. Telephone operators, bellmen and maids were given lists of VIPS' names. Since the Hilton could accommodate only 2,400 of the delegates, the less important visitors had to be discreetly dispersed among other nearby first-class hotels. A.T.A. staffers spent 250 hours compiling 2-in. by 4-in. index cards with information on each member and each supplier, his company, even his wife. Thus the planners ensured that at the daily luncheons in the Grand Ballroom, trucking-company executives were strategically interspersed with suppliers' representatives...