Word: nelsons
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Elite. Although the FBI in its early days concentrated on auto thefts and illegal sexual conduct (Mann Act violation), its publicity was focused on its more dramatic gun battles with such romanticized thugs as "Baby Face" Nelson and John Dillinger. Later the FBI exploited its World War II investigations
When Nixon ran again for President in 1968, Gray helped gather information on the strategy and organization of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents for the nomination. There was nothing surreptitious about this, but it was curious that Gray later told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had played no role in Nixon's 1968 campaign...
...more or less seriously offered a leading role in the Broadway production of Sleuth; but he plans to stick to politics despite his disastrous showing in last year's presidential primaries, after he switched from Republican to Democrat. Now 51, he may run for Governor against his archfoe Nelson Rockefeller in 1974, or he may wait until 1976 to challenge Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley. By then, he can only hope that New Yorkers will have forgotten how much they disliked him as a mayor...
QUEEN MARGUERITE is the most complex character in Exit the King. As the play proceeds she must change from death's morbid apologist to a magnanimous prophet. But Marlene Nelson as Marguerite maintains a uniformly dour and malignant tenor, never clearly establishing what she feels or wants. Ionesco is vague on these points, but she should clarify the uncertainty. Her work in the final scene in the play, when she tells the king and the audience what it is to die, is the biggest let-down of the evening...
While Lindsay's major interest in politics has always been in foreign affairs, his intense hatred for Nelson Rockefeller might draw him into the race for governor. Rockefeller and Lindsay have been at each other's throats since the middle of the mayor's first term and 1974 might be a good time to settle their feud for good...