Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have sponsored a series of four regional meetings that brought together scholars, members of Congress and TIME editors. The panel participants included Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, executive director of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Dr. Charles O. Jones of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Nelson W. Polsby of the University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. Richard F. Fenno Jr. of the University of Rochester. They discussed the state of Congress today, analyzed the institution's loss of powers and considered ways in which it might improve both its workings and its status...
...society also voted to support a bill sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wise.) that would direct the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a further study of the ecological effects of bombing and defoliation on Indochina
Brennan's flirtation with the G.O.P. began some time ago. He represents unions, after all, whose members are solidly established in the middle class since many of them make $20,000 or more a year. Voting Republican was not all that traumatic. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller made it easier by promoting so many construction projects round the state, Brennan has supported him in his last two bids for reelection. But taking the post under Nixon is a risk. Much as he may agree with the President on some issues, he is poles apart on others. He supports...
...department, succeeding Laird. But there were even stronger rumors that the job might go to HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson, who might also a) stay in his present post or b) move on to Justice. Out of the running for any Cabinet job, it seemed, was Nelson Rockefeller; last week he told the President that he would prefer to stay on in New York and, possibly, run for a sixth term as Governor. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, is a possibility for head of HUD. Astronaut Frank Borman, a favorite of Nixon's, is a possible...
...showdown was staged a fortnight ago in the chandeliered Nelson Room of the Trafalgar Tavern hard by the Thames in Greenwich. The Americans had barely unpacked their darts when the wily British indulged in a bit of ye olde "putting off" (psyching your opponent). The white toe-line, they announced, would be set 7 ft. 6 in. from the board and not 8 ft. as in the U.S. U.S. Darter Jack Carr, 39, a pub owner from Hermosa Beach, Calif., responded with some putting off of his own. "We'll continue to shoot from 8 ft.," he said gallantly...