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...Nelson C. Lees, director of resource planning for MIT, said yesterday that the drive would take about five years, and focus on individuals, foundations, and corporations...
Dave Cowens scored 17 points and dominated the boards for Boston while Don Nelson and Paul Westphal contributed an additional 14 points apiece. Don Chaney followed close behind with...
...William Henry Nelson defected to Cuba in 1963, explaining that, "America never did anything for me." In 1968, he drifted back to the U.S. on an inner tube...
Practically speaking, South Viet Nam was lost. "It's really too late to do anything about it," declared Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, one of the few Washington officials to say publicly what others were conceding privately. "I guess a lot of Vietnamese are going to die." Somewhat bitterly, he added, "For us, we go on living." Later, Rockefeller insisted that his "too late" view applied only to the fate of the refugees. Yet, while the Saigon government might shake up its personnel, and perhaps even rally some effective defense of the city and the Mekong Delta, its long-range military...
Carey describes the government that he took over as Nelson Rockefeller's "megastate," an expansive creature that could be fed only by an ever-expanding economy. Largely because of hard times, the New York State Urban Development Corp., an agency created at Rockefeller's urging, ran out of cash just as Carey took office. To save the state's credit-and housing developments already abuilding -Carey had to persuade the legislature to bail out U.D.C. temporarily while he bargained with reluctant bankers to get new underwriting. He also staved off financial disaster in the New York City...