Word: nelson
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Brazilians got their first look at a grandiose project that might alter the shape of postwar capitalism. In Rio last week Nelson Rockefeller, optimistic, zealous salesman of Good Neighborliness, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, took the wraps off a brand-new idea called the American International Association for Economic and Social Development...
...Brazil's rulers, the closes productores, but insisted that he wanted to talk with labor leaders too. The press gave him a lusty welcome. Said Correio da Manhá: "The American continent cannot survive while one part is strong and prosperous and the other poor and weak. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the first to realize this truth." In a front-page editorial entitled simply "Nelson," Diario da Noite said: "He returns to encourage the development of our land resources in the generous and disinterested desire to improve the lot of the great masses of Latin America...
Corn-Hog Program. Henry Wallace once told him that an acre of Iowa hybrid corn yielded far more than ordinary corn, and Nelson Rockefeller never forgot. This week he was to sign his first commercial contract with Brazil's only hybrid producer, Agroceres Limited of São Paulo. It would call for a minority investment of $200,000, and seed loans to the company, which would sell hybrid seed corn to farmers, and to other companies that wished to start production...
Winding up before Dillon Field House after following a marching route that led from Memorial Hall down Quincy Street, down Bow Street, westward along Mt. Auburn, and finally south along Boylston to Soldiers Field, the torchlight procession heard from members of the squad, Swede Nelson, Cleo O'Donnell, and Dick Harlow...
Following his graduation, he worked with Jock Suture land, then Harlow, then George Munger of Penn, and finally Harry Stuhldreher at Wisconsin. In 1942, on the resignation of "Spike" Nelson from the Yale coaching staff, Odell got his first head coaching job. He has been at Yale ever since...