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Died. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, former Governor of Arkansas and second youngest member of the Rockefeller brotherhood that includes Nelson, Governor of New York, and David, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually...
Members of the fraternity attribute its survival to its "exceptional financial stability as well as the brotherhood's persistent desire to maintain a chapter." Most Harvard fraternities collapsed when the House system began and off-campus living was limited...
Since the UFW began organizing lettuce workers in 1970, lettuce growers in California have signed various "sweetheart" contracts -- contracts in which workers and employers promise each other mutually beneficial favors -- with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
...begun, they proclaimed. The youthful and enthusiastic threesome--Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, and William Hunt--soon attracted the amazed attention of staid Victorians. For the public, they merely signed their paintings and publications with the mysterious initials PRB; in private, they called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood...
...Justice Department. Political support was recruited, petitions signed. There were three requests for parole, and three times the board unanimously voted no. Then President Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence, and the famous convict was home for Christmas. As the election year began. White House relations with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters flourished as never before...