Word: kemper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editors, writers, correspondents and researchers. From the opening gavel on Monday to the oratorical wind-up on Thursday, we found ourselves in a Kansas City that was boiling-climatically and politically. Despite the heat, the noise and the crunch on the crowded floor, our staffers were everywhere in the Kemper Arena covering the most exciting G.O.P. gathering since 1964. Many of them are pictured here in action...
...opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms. So were a number of Eastern sophisticates who were visibly impressed by the Price pad. Said Georgetown Columnist Rowland...
...some of its people and imported seven vans full of furniture from Raleigh, N.C. Even ABC, which devoted only 60% as much air time to the convention as its competitors, put up a 300-ft.-long structure (dubbed "the Bridge on the River Kwai") to carry cables into the Kemper Arena...
...Managing Editor Henry Grunwald, are not only attending the convention-as they have done in the past-but this year are remaining in Kansas City after the fighting is over to write, edit and check the section and, in effect, send it to press from there. On the Kemper Arena floor, in the middle of the convention uproar, and at delegate caucuses as they take place around town, 15 TIME correspondents are covering developments and then heading back to our 2,000-sq.-ft. workroom at the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, a mile away, to write their files...
Hotel. He could instantly reach his floor manager, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, seated at a command post in the convention's Kemper Arena. Griffin, in turn, would direct eleven regional whips on the floor and key Ford operatives in every delegation. Any slippage in expected voting patterns would lead to a quick request to poll the offending delegation, giving the Ford men tune to try to close the breach...