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...wars, and its more belligerent foreign policies all met with Rockefeller's approval, though he did not think Kennedy went far enough. Rockefeller was for a second try at Castro after the Bay of Pigs and he supported the nuclear test agreement reluctantly. He was the country's leading enthusiast for the delusion that there could be civil defense against nuclear war. He was for U.S. intervention in the Congo, where the Rockefellers have extensive interests and as late as March 19, 1967, he was fervent in his support of Johnson in Vietnam...

Author: By Kevin A. Stafford, | Title: Rocky Runs Right | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...eight or ten clients, making a couple of speeches along the way and finding time to work for such groups as the National Urban League and the International Chamber of Commerce. When he is in New York City, he gets to the office by 7 a.m. A physical fitness enthusiast, Ney takes daily workouts in a gym or plays paddle tennis at the Racquet Club. "There are times when you ache all over from lack of sleep," he admits, but "if you like what you are doing, why not try to do it as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Reorganization Man | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...FOURTH and 38 for the nation's number one football enthusiast. And Dick Whittier, the four-year varsity quarterback for USU, is in big trouble...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Scrambling the Game Plan | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Other converts to self-service, including many women, have become addicted to tinkering, viewing it as a challenging hobby as well as a way of beating inflation. Sol Dolgin, a Jaguar enthusiast who opened the Van Nuys garage 14 months ago, says: "We thought that a large part of our business would be motor tune-ups and brakes. Instead, people are putting in transmissions, brakes and rear ends. They aren't afraid to try anything. We've had 8,000 customers in the past year, and they get a great feeling of accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Fixers | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...would, in all likelihood, also be one of the few Senators ever to jump motorcycles as a hobby. A college football and rugby enthusiast, Biden keeps his athletic trim by skiing and playing an extremely rough brand of touch football. That kind of exuberant roughhousing, coupled with his star-quality good looks, seems to cast Biden, an Irish Catholic, in the Kennedy mold. The Kennedy comparison is encouraged by the intense involvement of his family in the current campaign: Joe's sister is his campaign manager, his brother is his fund-raising director, his mother is his state "coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections '72: They Say That He Is Ambitious | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

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