Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these are the meat and taters of convention planning, other factors have to be considered. Among them: accessibility, ambience, restaurants, night life, theaters, museums, shopping, sightseeing, sports and the degree of local cooperation. Thus New York City and Chicago perennially head the Top Ten convention cities in numbers of conventioneers and dollars spent, but the jostling runners-up reflect demographic change and civic ambition. The field...
Atlanta, fifth biggest convention capital thanks to two-year-old Georgia World Congress Center, lured 775 gatherings, 800,000 delegates, $212 million. Attractions: 28,000 hotel rooms, more than 1 million sq. ft. exhibition space, a cordial citizenry, historic sites.
Washington, the serious man's convention site, brought in 850 meetings, 750,000 delegates, $247.5 million. Attractions: 35,000 hotel rooms, 250,000 sq. ft. exhibition space; museums, monuments, performing arts, political contacts, capital glamour.
The meetings of the convention were held in the ballroom of the Allen House. In an anteroom was the office of the chairman of the executive committee. He was the busiest man in the convention; he was so busy that he got nothing done whatever.
The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel lobby, but there was a show of public meetings. The first of them opened with a welcome by the mayor of Monarch. The pastor of the First Christian Church...