Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents...
Of itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle...
Rabbits & Flies. The environment into which Nelson was born on July 8, 1908 appeared to need no working on. Grandfather John Davison Rockefeller had hammered together the Standard Oil Trust and amassed a billion dollars along the way. Grandfather Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, at the time senior Senator from Rhode Island...
Beyond the Fence. In 1935 Rockefeller visited South America on a trip that changed his life. In Venezuela he discovered the abysmal difference between the standard of living inside the U.S. oil compounds and outside. Few U.S. executives knew Spanish; as a result, their companies had little contact with the...
Not until next month will New Yorkers know whether personality, teamwork and determination can carry Rockefeller all the way to Albany. But one thing is already clear. Never has the Empire State seen such a handshaking, hula hooping, beanie wearing, bandleading candidate-named Rockefeller. Never would the old environment be...