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...they're bringing on the Spartan approach," I said, "frills are passe." I really had no desire to hear another lecture on art, let alone watch Meldrim Thomson feast on clams...
...waiting for. The Sheraton ballroom, newly furnished for the governors with a table and state flags, was jammed with waiting staff, press and state troopers. In the wake of a Clamshell Alliance picket against nuclear power plants going on outside, four state troopers were assigned to guard Gov. Meldrim Thomson all day. Security and expectations tightened...
...despite all the brazen cries for tax reform, when the final score was in, not one of the association's tax reform proposals was passed. Thomson's resolution demanding constitutional limits on state and federal spending garnered only ten votes (not surprisingly), and a proposal by Gov. James Hunt of North Carolina calling for major reductions in the federal budget did not even make it past the opening round of discussion...
...this time, the Clamshell Alliance had brought a dozen demonstrators to picket the pro-nuclear stance of the governors' association Nuclear Power Subcommittee. State troopers and Boston police kept a watchful eye on the small but noisy stream of protestors shouting, "Meldrim Thomson, Dixie Lee Ray, we don't believe a word you say." They distributed reprints of an article in Rolling Stone by Edward Kohn headlined, "The Government's Quiet War on Scientists Who Know Too Much." They chanted for about three hours, but provoked no confrontations or bad blood, just a lot of disgusted looks from Sheraton windows...
There was no one to challenge Thomson or Ray inside the convention. Various governors lunched at the Nuclear Power Subcommittee's conference as Dr. Thomas A. Vanderslice, senior vice-president of General Electric, spoke on the "absolute necessity" of nuclear power. He created economic disaster "scenarios" replete with blackouts and massive underemployment that would occur if all new 211 power units (47 nuclear and 164 coal) are not built. "If these sites are not approved," he said, "we will have about 17 per cent less capacity in 1990 than we believe necessary to avoid serious curtailment of service and widespread...