Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toss a party for 400 or so close friends, she knew just the spot: Pocantico Hills, the family's 3,000-acre estate overlooking the Hudson near Tarrytown, N.Y. It was at the stone-walled residence that folks such as Pierre Trudeau, Henry Kissinger, Arthur Burns and Averell Harriman, helped Nelson Rockefeller celebrate his 70th birthday last week. And it is to Pocantico Hills that the Rockefellers plan to retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East house, which has a cantilevered...
They asked the Georgetown neighbors if he had a drinking problem. They inquired up the street about his sexual habits. The subject of the investigation: veteran Statesman W. Averell Harriman, 86, who represented the U.S. at Yalta and led the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks. The snoopers: State Department agents performing a "routine" security check because Harriman has been nominated to be a member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. special session on disarmament later this month. Said he diplomatically: "I have utterly no objection. It's part of the rules and perfectly appropriate...
...create the foreign policy Establishment," says White House Aide Landon Butler. Out of the past came figures like Averell Harriman and John J. McCloy to form the Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaties. Even as what the White House calls "gullible ideologues" were spending millions of dollars to defeat the treaties, the Establishment group was raising hundreds of thousands of dollars on its own, both from direct-mail solicitations and from large corporations with interests in Latin America, like the Chase Manhattan Bank, United Brands and Occidental Petroleum. Meanwhile, former President Ford began speaking out on behalf...
...Robert V. Roosa, 59, a partner in the investment banking house of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. An early supporter of Carter, Roosa gained renown as an innovator in international finance when he served as Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs from...
...House would like, and his stand does nothing to increase the chances that Carter will reappoint him when his term as board chairman expires Jan. 31. Washington speculation on his possible successor is already narrowing to Robert V. Roosa, a partner in the investment banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman, and Paul Volcker, head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. (Arthur Okun, a Brookings Institution economist and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, whose name also has been mentioned, says Carter would make a mistake in appointing him because the chairman should be someone with closer ties...