Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hence the precarious positions of big-stage governors like Democrat Edmund Brown of California and liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Since 1958, each has had his name tied to controversial, progressive state policies -- once that often alienated self-interested blocs that had aided in their original victories. In addition, each has tried to confront the racist issue of "crime in the streets" without much success. Time and partisan bickering have dissipated the aura of freshness, novelty, and change that accompanied their ascent to the highest state of fice...
...related to his work, perhaps hoping that at least part of it will come back as a tax deduction. One example is James Purvis, 33, Boston University religions professor, who went to work on the excavation of an ancient Canaanite fortress in Israel, under the supervision of Theologian-Archaeologist Nelson Glueck. Purvis, who says that he left behind "three angry children and an equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs...
...beauty of Lauren Bacall. The theatergoers who have made her Broadway comedy Cactus Flower an S.R.O. hit since the night it opened seven months ago do not think of Bacall as a woman of 41, nor does she, nor does the amorous dentist-hero of the play, Barry Nelson, 44, whom she guilefully lures away from a mistress half...
...course of a year, Nelson may make half a dozen or more similar whirlwind trips to Washington. So do hundreds of other university executives, whose job titles-usually vice president for educational development-barely disguise the fact that they are at least part-time, informal lobbyists for their schools. With the Federal Government now spending billions of dollars annually on research, many U.S. schools have decided that it makes sense to have men who specialize in developing good Washington contacts. At least 20 universities consider the job of keeping watch on how the pie is divided important enough to have...
Consequently, the differences that look so small on paper are at the bargaining table very large indeed. While things are being sorted out, 60 per cent of the nation's air traffic is grounded, and commerce is put, if not in a strangle-hold, at least in a half-nelson...