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...DAVID T. NELSON...
...schools, theaters, shopping centers and parks. Along these lines, Mayor John Lindsay's task force on urban design suggests that New York City, rather than pack even more skyscrapers into midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, should create a major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building two 110-story skyscrapers for the World Trade Center in the Wall Street area. That is the kind...
...able Senator and prodigious vote getter, would have been glad to be the nation's first Jewish Vice President. But a highly conservative Republican presidential candidate probably wouldn't want him, a red-hot liberal wouldn't need him, and a fellow New Yorker like Nelson Rockefeller couldn't run on the same ticket with him. So Governor George Romney's impressive third-term victory in Michigan seemed like very good news last fall. Why not a union of Republican moderates around a Michigan-New York axis? The crux of this strategy was Rockefeller...
Javits gamely insists that he and Rockefeller still consider Romney the best moderate candidate. "We have no fallback position," he said. "There are no alternatives." None, that is, unless Romney happens to stumble. Then Javits would not have to look far for an alternative-namely, Nelson Rockefeller...
...weak promotion, bad odds (1,000,000 to 1 for top prize of $100,000), and the unexciting legality of the whole thing. Some gamblers feel that their pastime has to be more attuned to the raffish ways of Moe the Gyp than to the clean-cut operation of Nelson the Rock. The mystique has to do with smoky back rooms and the smell of the paddocks, with whispered hunches and looking bored while four aces burn a hole in your hand...