Word: nelson
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Kings of Kink. WAVAW has asked record-buyers to boycott the three companies. But so far the tactic has had little impact. In fact, record shops may be on the way toward luring browsers away from dirty-book shops. Some current albums: Wild Angel by Nelson Slater (girl wearing a chain gag); Bloodstone's Do You Wanna Do a Thing? (gang-rape scene); Pure Food and Drug Act's Choice Cuts (woman's bare buttocks stamped with the album title). A group called the Ohio Players has illustrated a series of albums with sadistic photos. Among them...
...Husband Edward spent a night in the elegant Queen's Bedroom; next morning, a White House operator phoned to ask, "What would you like for breakfast, Your Highness?" On Wednesday the Rockefellers came for dinner and also spent the night in the Queen's Bedroom; Sons Nelson Jr., 12, and Mark, 9, slept in the Lincoln Bedroom...
...perfect order for the Carters. With each day, the Ford presence shrank, until there was nothing left but their luggage and their bed. At breakfast with 75 aides and Cabinet members on the final morning, Ford circulated around the State Dining Room, thanking each person individually. When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller declared that "this is the proudest moment of our lives," a wave of applause washed over the room. Said Ford in response: "You all contributed to an Administration I think was good-and which history will treat kindly...
...Nelson Rockefeller's millions had been able to buy the moment for himself. The power and prestige of Teddy Kennedy's family were buried and, for the moment at least, almost forgotten...
...Rocky in the political arena? Hard to imagine. Yet the passing of the Ford Administration on Jan. 20 will also mark the close of Nelson Rockefeller's remarkable public career. It spans not only four terms as Governor of New York but also jobs with six Administrations in Washington, starting in 1940 as Frank lin Roosevelt's Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. In the interview below, the Vice President discusses his career, including his never-achieved Oval Office ambitions, with TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey. Some parting thoughts by other Ford Administration figures appear...