Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union. A drive by Mexico to rejuvenate the languishing Pan American Union confronted Ed Stettinius and his No. 1 political assistant, Nelson Rockefeller, with a challenge to their Hemisphere leadership. They met it skillfully, yielded on most points without losing too much face or endangering the U.S. position on more vital issues. Important changes...
...Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. Stettinius' No. 1 assistant on Latin American affairs, showed his growing know-how, his flair for Latin amenities. At one session Delegate Rockefeller even chatted happily with Mexican Artist Diego Rivera, whose proletarian murals were torn out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center by Nelson's father twelve years ago. Artist Rivera, now planning a mural based on the conference, spent several hours sketching Ed Stettinius...
...beat on the long swing from Portland to Pensacola was the mechanical marvel, Byron Nelson (TIME, Oct. 23). At Gulf port, the two finished in a tie, but the man with the flawless form bowed to Slammin' Sammy in a 19-hole playoff. Afterwards it came out that Snead could have won the day before if he had not penalized himself a stroke-for nudging the ball on the all-important last hole (no one saw it but Snead...
...Pensacola last week, Snead had strokes to spare. On one sizzling round (the second), he posted eleven pars, six birdies, one eagle to equal the course record of 64. His tourney-winning 267-a fabulous 21 under par-put him seven strokes up on Nelson, who came from nowhere to finish second. It also gave him a five-four lead over Nelson in the winter winner's race. Any golfer who could do that required no sympathy for his bad back and worse hook...
Their great worry is: will they be the pawns of the Colossus of the North, or honored, respected associates? The test of Nelson Rockefeller's long and earnest efforts to win Latin American friendship will be whether or not this Latin worry is deflated at Mexico City. If this fear is not removed, no Western Hemisphere working arrangement will be durable. If the worry is intensified, sooner or later Latin Americans will turn to some other power, perhaps to Britain or Russia, to counterbalance a new U.S. imperialism...