Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Volpe, starting his third term, declared that his state's limited 3% sales tax, enacted in 1966 after a vicious battle, should be made permanent, warned that projecting the tax structure will be "arduous, complicated and demanding," and called for a full-scale study of revenue sources. Nelson Rockefeller said he was ready to set up the machinery for New York's referendum-approved lottery, which is expected to yield upwards of $50 million for state education...
...Nelson Rockefeller focused more sharply on the shortcomings of centralized government. Said he: "More than 30 years of ever-expanding federal programs have proven that federal authority stands too distant from local conditions to allow efficient use of federal funds by formulas and procedures conceived in Washington. To criticize federal programs for failing to deliver on their promises, however, is not to disparage the high purposes inspiring many of these programs. But we do want to see a dollar's worth of work done for every dollar spent. Our experience in New York shows plainly that federal bypassing...
Finally, with the score 13-1, he yanked back Wright one more time, threw in a nelson, and nailed him. The Crimson had an 11-8 lead which it never relinquished...
PETER AND THE WOLF (Verve). Bach has been the take-off point for many a jazz exploration. Why not Prokofiev, too? Arranger Oliver Nelson has appropriated the Soviet composer's famous symphonic fairy tale and begins with a straightforward statement of the familiar themes: bird, duck, cat, wolf and Peter. But then a high-spirited jabberwocky takes over as Nelson's two dozen men come on strong, paced by Jimmy Smith at the organ...
...made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...