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...domestic service programs. "Here is a real, positive outlet," says Gibbs Kinderman, 23, who with his wife Kathy, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., directs a poverty program in Appalachia. Laurance Rockefeller Jr., 22, great-grandson of John D., obliquely justifies his work as a $22.50-a-week VISTA volunteer in Harlem: "Beyond affluence, what?" Answers Co-Worker Tweed...
Tall, courtly Al Nickerson, 55, has been the $250,000-a-year chairman of the nation's sixth largest company (1965 sales: $5.5 billion) since 1961. He joined Mobil in 1933 when, fresh out of Harvard, he landed a $19-a-week job in a Brookline, Mass., service station. One of his main achievements has been to help build up Mobil's foreign operations, which ^suffered heavily during World War II, to the point where they now bring in more than half of the company's net income, which reached a record $320 million...
...stage when his brothers were selecting wives from the proper families and digging into the New York-based family businesses and philanthropies, he became a roustabout in the Texas oilfields at 75? per hour, moved up to roughneck, or assistant driller, at 83?, and lived in a $4.50-a-week room. When he came home three years later, he worked briefly at junior jobs in such family-dominated enterprises as the Chase National Bank (now Chase Manhattan) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (now Mobil). He began taking on charitable responsibilities and helped organize the Greater New York Fund. He became...
...Will Understand." After the first few hours of private grief, boyish-looking Chuck Percy, 47, a devout Christian Scientist, weathered the ordeal with spartan composure. His life had been a classic tale of success-a rise from $12-a-week clerk to president of Bell & Howell Co. at 29, a millionaire at 40. But this was the second untimely death that had stricken his family. In 1947 his first wife, Jeanne (who was not a Christian Scientist), died of a violent reaction to drugs after a seemingly simple and successful operation. Percy married the former Loraine Guyer...
Accompanying Brown to Capitol Hill was a witness whom he described as a "more typical manchild," Negro Arthur Dunmeyer, a 30-year-old grandfather from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant area who recently managed to get a $100-a-week porter's job despite his lengthy prison record. Dunmeyer told the Senators that he was born illegitimately, that he fathered an illegitimate child at 15, and that a daughter of his gave birth to an illegitimate baby at age twelve. Describing illegitimacy as "just a way of life," Dunmeyer added: "I might think of having some children, not thinking...