Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well at the seventh World University Games being held at Lake Placid, N.Y. Officials of the games are pretty upset that New York State Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller did not plan to show up for the games, saying he was "too busy in Albany...
...important question about the President's message," says Senator Gaylord Nelson, "is whether the Administration will in fact support its rhetoric with concrete action." In this election year, the answer clearly lies with the voters. Environmental groups are planning to make Congressmen's records on ecological issues available to the public right up to Election Day. Unlike 1971, this might actually be a year of accomplishment-if the public is willing to pay for the great cleanup...
...Washington monument has vanished. In place of its tapering obelisk, a pair of colossal scissors, several hundred feet high, slowly opens during the day and shuts during the night. In Chicago, a clothespin stands where the Tribune Tower once was. In London, Nelson's Column has been replaced by a giant gearshift, which twitches and gyrates erratically through its patterns, scaring the pigeons away from Trafalgar Square forevermore. Have we all been colonized by the Brobdingnagians? Not quite. Claes Oldenburg is at work, and an exhibition of his imaginary monsters, entitled Object into Monument, is now touring...
Waiting List. Some relief is in sight. The department of mental hygiene's 1971 budget of $580 million had been threatened with a $20 million cut in the coming fiscal year. Responding to public pressure, Governor Nelson Rockefeller has canceled the cut, announcing that the department's budget will instead be increased by $20 million. That will allow Willowbrook to fill at least 300 vacant positions. But it is unlikely to improve conditions at the institution. "Attendants aren't enough," explains Hammond. "We need to get 2,000 patients out of here...
Ryan, Gibson and Nelson, in a 90-minute interview last week, conceded that non-scholarship students take in between one-quarter and one-third of the wages and salaries...