Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nelson G Ross an attorney serving as co-counsel for Harvard in the case introduced as evidence a letter from the central personnel office in Cambridge sent to Brickman when she was hired concerning a life insurance plan...
...anti-Communist Faisal as a strong moderating influence in the Middle East, were shocked by the news of his death. In Washington, President Ford described him as "a close friend of the United States" whose "wisdom and stature earned the respect of the entire world." Ford dispatched Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to Riyadh to convey his condolences to the royal family. Secretary of State Kissinger, who had conferred with Faisal only six days earlier in Riyadh, spoke of the King's "extraordinary personality" and of his unique influence on "both the moderates and the radical elements in the Arab...
...create. But the mayor has a few advantages. A homespun accountant who joined the city government in 1946, he can speak to the civil servants with rolled-up-sleeves rapport. Union members do not distrust him, as they did John Lindsay. Unlike Lindsay, who was always feuding with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abe Beame gets along well with Governor Hugh Carey - an asset in a city that receives almost one-third of its budget from the state. In addition, the city's ambitious comptroller, Harrison Goldin, an earlier critic of Beame's financial housekeeping, has quieted down to help...
...fears were rekindled. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller on board his jet raised the specter of a "bloodbath" of a million people if South Viet Nam fell. Apparently that stems from the claim by Richard Nixon five years earlier that 1½ million Catholics who fled to the South would be killed if South Viet Nam fell. Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford did some research at the time and found a little more than half that many Catholics had fled South and about the same number stayed in North Viet Nam and were not touched by the Communists. Further...
...investigations of the U.S. intelligence community are gradually moving ahead. Every week a presidential panel hears secret testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic activities. That probe was scheduled to conclude April 4, but the commission's chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that he will ask for an extension of several weeks...