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Disputed Challenges. Humphrey's rivals, particularly McCarthy, did their best to turn the Credentials Committee hearings to their advantage. In Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel ballroom, a record 1,000 delegates from 14 states were challenged on grounds ranging from racial discrimination to improper selection procedures. McCarthy hoped to increase his delegate strength by preventing hundreds of Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground...
...Pictures, Please. Downtown in the Loop, cops were stationed on every corner and in the middle of every block. Federal agents were assigned to the roof, main corridors, kitchen and service areas of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, headquarters of the convention, where three candidates-Vice President Hum phrey, Eugene McCarthy and Georgia's Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were...
...industry's new labor contract was "high." Ironically, one consideration facilitating settlement was the knowledge that a steel strike, with its inevitably depressing consequences for both the economy and the Viet Nam war effort, would have provoked White House intervention. Union representatives and Chief Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper of U.S. Steel shrouded their meetings in unaccustomed secrecy, avoided the usual inflammatory statements. When Federal Mediator Simkin showed up to offer his assistance, he was politely told to go home. He did so, and settlement was reached 28 hours before the strike deadline...
There is a sort of psychology working in favor of such underestimations. Explains Conrad Jamieson, the vice president and chief economist of Los Angeles' Security First National Bank: "If you underpredict, you can always say, 'Gee, we did even better than I had predicted,' and it's not so bad. But then if you say, 'Well, we didn't do as well as I thought we would,' you look a lot worse...
...bargaining point. On the other hand, a prolonged strike would both slow down the economy and hinder the Viet Nam war effort. In view of that, it is possible that Washington may once again intervene in steel negotiations when the deadline approaches. Meanwhile, says Chief Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, a U.S. Steel executive vice president, "I see very, very serious and difficult problems ahead...