Word: pressrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rudolph Rauch assembled a group to arrange the complex logistics that convention coverage demands. The swift movement of staffers, information and film required the hiring of 22 messengers and a fleet of 21 cars, as well as the installation in TIME'S pressroom in Cobo Hall of 50 telephones, two telex machines and a link to our computer in Manhattan. Other newsroom amenities: 24 desks, 38 typewriters, six pairs of binoculars and-for the fortunate-a pair of sofas...
Momentous as these decisions were, they were announced with little ah" of drama. On Wednesday, when the final three decisions came down, some two dozen reporters jammed the basement pressroom of the Supreme Court building and grabbed for copies, prompting a court employee to snap: "Behave!" But upstairs in the ornate red-draped courtroom, the tourists who occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced...