Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the action did little to raise the onetime actor's popularity rating, he at least knew how to recognize an exit cue. When his tax proposals were made public, Reagan managed a strategic retreat to the East, where he met with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, breakfasted in Washington with Republican members of the House, and swapped quips with Bobby Kennedy at the Gridiron Club's annual hijinks...
...Died. Nelson Eddy, 65, romantic baritone, whose golden tones and handsome blond looks blended so perfectly with Jeanette MacDonald's clear soprano and redheaded beauty that they became Hollywood's most celebrated pair in the late 1930s and '40s, singing their way through scores of love duets (Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit...
With a Thud. The top candidates for the top job were all there except New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who insists that he does not want the job anyway. Richard Nixon, who was to leave this week on a three-week European tour, got in some last-minute politicking, shaking every hand in sight. Illinois' Freshman Senator Chuck Percy was busily huddling and helloing. But the cynosures were Michigan's Governor George Romney and California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who were scheduled to speak for three minutes each...
...statesman "Mr.," others "Prime Minister." The Mrs. set them straight. "Ben-Gurion would be the nicest thing," she said. "Prime Minister anyone could be-Ben-Gurion nobody could be." Said B. G. with a smile: "I'm not responsible for her answers." New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller got all mixed up too. When he greeted Ben-Gurion at the Hotel Plaza, Rocky started out: "It's such a pleasure to welcome you to your second home in New York State . . ." In midsentence, Ben-Gurion cut in: "This is my third home-my second...
Then Baum got the first of three pins with an easy reverse nelson on George Ospovat in the second period. He was ahead, 2-0, at the time on the strength of a first-period takedown...