Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ADVICE of politicians and politically-minded aides played a key role in the final decision to drop the negative income tax. From inside the campaign, McGovern was being urged to drop the plan by Van Dyk and Paul Offner, a former aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson who joined the campaign to work on economic issues in mid-August. Offner believes that, until he brought it to their attention, McGovern and Weil had not considered the fact that the plan would put a third of the nation "on welfare", though Weil denies this...
Offner and Van Dyk argued that McGovern should propose jobs for the poor and concentrate on Nixon's mismanagement of the economy. And they persuaded McGovern's liberal Senate friends--Gaylord Nelson, Alan Cranston, and Abraham Ribicoff--to urge him not to propose the Ross plan...
...Furniers had warnings early on. Even though Vince was not especially musical (he still plays only the harmonica), he would dress up to imitate Elvis Presley or Ricky Nelson. Later, as a sophomore at Cortez High, he organized his first band, the Earwigs. "It wasn't a band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home...
...music (including Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra and Tommy Dorsey), the radio programs (Fibber McGee, Jack Benny) are carefully chosen, as if reality could be totally re-created out of air waves. Billboards, movie marquees, houses, cars, clothes-all are so fastidiously arranged that the movie begins to look like an elaborately decorated show window, or a diorama for a contemporary American history class. It is also just about as moving. As a young critic, Bogdanovich paid lavish tribute to such American masters as John Ford and Howard Hawks. But the harder Bogdanovich strains after emulation, the more it eludes...
...park scheme dates back to 1968, when Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered a land-use study of the area. The study established that state-owned parcels were scattered in a crazy-quilt pattern among thousands of individual private property holdings. It turned out that about 80 of the 89 towns in the region lacked zoning rules and thus had no defense against helter-skelter development...