Word: gaylord
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...safe-issue. Both New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and New Jersey Governor William Cahill created state environment departments. The Massachusetts legislature passed a constitutional amendment establishing an Environmental Bill of Rights. Both houses of Congress recessed so that members could participate in Earth Day. Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson, who originated the idea of Earth Day, spoke at nine campuses from Harvard to Berkeley...
...Earth Day may be a turning point in American history," Gaylord Nelson told a Denver crowd of 4,000 last week. "It may be the birth date of a new American ethic that rejects the frontier philosophy that the continent was put here for our plunder, and accepts the idea that even urbanized, affluent, mobile societies are interdependent with the fragile, life-sustaining systems of the air, the water, the land." Nelson's mood may have been a bit too euphoric. Still, even though some of the ecological enthusiasm engendered by Earth Day may fade, the earth itself...
Seven months ago, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson casually suggested that all Americans set aside April 22 as a day for serious discussion of environmental problems. Since then, even he has been surprised by the response to the idea. "It is nothing short of incredible," says Nelson, noting that 1,500 college campuses and 10,000 schools were scheduled to participate in this week's nationwide teach...
Only politicians were not well represented in plans for Earth Day ceremonies. There were exceptions: Senators Edmund Muskie at Harvard, Gaylord Nelson at Berkeley, Ted Kennedy at Yale, and Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel at the University of Alaska. But, explained Scott Lang, president of Harvard's Environmental Law Society: "We wanted informed people. Most politicians are only reading what their speechwriters write for them...
Meanwhile, preparations continue for the national Environmental Teach-In. Conceived in the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson, blessed by HEW, the foundations, and the Urban Coalition, and augmented by liberals who had been frightened away from the angry rhetoric of the Panthers and the antiwar movement, the Environmental Teach-In presents a flashy, pre-pack-aged campaign which tells us that it is, of course in the interests of everyone (including the polluters) to clean up our smelly environment...