Word: nelson
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THOSE PLEDGES of vengeance have produced a number of splinter candidates running on the rent control issue: they include Cynthia Kline (Peace and Freedom Party), Steve Nelson (a hip graduate of the Law School and the Kennedy School), Jessie Gill (a nurse's aide who has made a small career picketing Harvard), and Daniel Connelly (the first chairman of the pro-rent control Cambridge Housing Convention...
...field of ecology, who deserves a dunce cap this week? According to Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the prize goes to the International Boundary Commission, which is now in the process of defoliating a 20-ft.-wide strip between the U.S. and Canada. The main purpose, says the commission, is to help establish jurisdiction in border disputes and plane crashes. Excluding water, the strip will extend over 2,964 miles of land...
What upsets Nelson is the fact that engineers are cutting the strip by spraying picloram, the same pesticide used by the U.S. military on the Demilitarized Zone in Viet Nam. The chemical kills sizable trees and brush vegetation for at least two years. In a letter to Secretary of State William Rogers this week, Nelson protests: "In effect, we are creating a North American DMZ, a sort of environmental disaster strip in the midst of some of the most magnificent wilderness country on earth...
...NELSON AND THE HAMILTONS by Jack Russell. 448 pages. Simon & Schuster. $10. A fond, splendidly informative account of the grotesque but genuine love between a blowsy beauty and the small, skiny, one-armed, one-eyed seaman who was England's greatest admiral...
...WILLIAM HAMILTON by Brian Fothergill. 459 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $10. The man cuckolded by Nelson turns out to have been a man of many parts -diplomat, art collector and scientist...