Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
...every word and move, Nelson Rockefeller was acting as though 1960 were already here-and by week's end any lingering doubts that he would play an active part in G.O.P. presidential politics next year had all but vanished. At a Corning press conference, he carefully refrained from disavowing a group of Republican Congressmen, led by New York's Stuyvesant Wainwright, who had announced their intention to enter his name in New Hampshire's early-bird presidential primary. Was he upset by the plan? "Well." said Nelson Rockefeller, "I was upset about a lot of things...
From Albany west to Corning, thence on to Niagara Falls, then the length of the state to Manhattan-630 airway miles in all-whizzed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week, shaking hands, slapping backs, issuing a tireless stream of enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will...
...with his 16-lb., battery-operated recorder, flicks it on in buses. subways, cabs, restaurants and elevators. His recordings of street singers, songs by national groups, church services in Harlem have provided the basis for nearly a dozen pop songs, including Sippin' Soda (Guy Mitchell), The Pendulum Song (Nelson Riddle), Wimoweh (Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers). In his midtown Manhattan apartment, such singers as Pete Seeger, Josh White, Harry Belafonte have sampled Schwartz's 1,500 hours of recorded tape, including more than 5,000 songs from some 40 countries...
Died. Oswald D. Heck, 57, popular, powerful, longtime (23 years) Republican speaker of the New York state assembly, who ruled the often unruly legislators with fair play and wit, pushed through controversial measures (State Commission Against Discrimination, compulsory auto insurance, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's tough tax program); of a heart attack; in Schenectady...