Word: nelson
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...city, state or federal control. With his uncanny ability as a drafter of legislation, Moses tricked mayors and governors into giving him power on a scale they never intended to and making sure that they couldn't take it away. In the end, it took the extraordinary coincidence that Nelson Rockefeller was governor of New York and his brother David controlled the Chase Manhattan Bank, which was the trustee of the Triborough bondholders, to make him vulnerable. And the Rockefellers were only able to depose him because, in the course of putting together the 1965-6 New York City World...
...Moses himself created the difficulties that surrounded public construction by the the "checks and balances" sector. But at a time when there are people on the loose who go on building things like the World Trade Center, Caro's book is good medicine. After all, it was the same Nelson Rockefeller who threw Moses out who built Rockefeller Center and Albany Mall...
Rita E. Hauser, 39. "Some day there will be a woman on the Supreme Court," predicts Hauser, who was among those mentioned for a seat when Justice John Marshall Harlan retired in 1971. A moderate Republican who has campaigned for both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned...
John D. Rockefeller IV, 37. To his critics in West Virginia, Native New Yorker "Jay" Rockefeller is a suspect Democrat from a Republican family-and a carpetbagger to boot. Still, two years after arriving in Appalachia as a poverty worker, the nephew of Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of John D. Jr. easily won a seat in the state house of delegates, in 1968 was elected West Virginia's secretary of state. Handsome, rich, well educated (Exeter, Harvard, Yale) and well wed (his father-in-law is G.O.P. Senator Charles Percy), Rockefeller lost his bid for governorship...
Guido Calabresi, 41, professor at the Yale Law School, is tagged by his peers as Supreme Court or World Court material. A former Rhodes scholar and top-ranking Yale law graduate, Calabresi has frequently advised the U.S. Department of Transportation and various state agencies and is a member of Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices. He has recently been concentrating on an examination of modern technology and its effects; in 1970 he wrote The Cost of Accidents, a study that served as a prime source of data for the designers of the national no-fault insurance bill...