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...journalists are due many of the same waivers as athletes under I.O.C. rules, our luggage was searched before we could even get to the front desk to register in the press hotel. The guards squeezed toothpaste tubes, dismantled cameras, unfolded clothes. And they would not let you leave the hotel???forget getting back in?unless you were carrying your credentials. After the ballet one night, I decided to see how far I could walk without someone materializing to stop me for inspection. My record was three-quarters of a block...
...while an anxious nation watched its television screens, the supremely confident Carter knew the way his personal winds were blowing. He awaited the returns in a starkly modern three-room suite in Atlanta's Omni Hotel???a posh setting that contrasted with the humble accommodations, often at the homes of supporters, that he had used as he began his once lonely campaign 22 months ago. At 11 p.m. he placed a call to Massachusetts' Congressman Tip O'Neill, who is in line to become Speaker of the House. In his soft drawl Carter said: "Tip, I feel confident now that...
McGovern remained ensconced in his suite at the Doral, surrounded by his five children, two sons-in-law and two grandsons. Assorted other sisters, a brother-in-law, aunts, nieces and nephews were scattered around the hotel?...
...rich?the Whitneys, the Harrimans, the Forrestals, the Stettiniuses, the John Hertzes?moving as effortlessly in their circles as he once did among the poor of Manhattan's lower east side. Bernard Baruch's wedding present to the Hopkinses was a sumptuous dinner for 50 at Washington's Carlton Hotel??? a fairly routine affair of its kind, which raised the blood pressure of anti-New Deal newspapers...
...GRAND HOTEL???Large scale handling of the slice-of-life technique...