BURLINGTON, Vermont — Nearly a half-century ago, a young University of Vermont political scientist was rummaging through the stacks of the Howe Memorial Library when he was accosted by an agitated figure fulminating about millionaires and displaying an unsettling fixation on the Rockefeller family.
"I asked myself how I could get away from this guy," said Garrison Nelson. "I kept moving and figured I would never see or hear from him again."
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