Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. knows tough competition when he sees it: "If he goes into politics, I stay out," he announced, eying David Eisenhower. The two got together in Manhattan at the invitation of a new magazine, Your Place, which has published an interview with each of them. Both Robert, 24, and David, 30, admit that coming from prominent political families poses problems. Robert, a student at the London School of Economics, recalls the "white rage" he felt when he was a Harvard undergraduate and a lecturer described J.F.K. as "macho, a Harvard jocko type." But overall, he concedes that...
...family-dominated companies such as Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Koppers−is probably well over $400 million. But there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain or the hundreds of English and French art masterpieces that he has yet to give away...
...winter he spends a short time in Antigua, and in the summer he takes a month or so on Cape Cod. The rest of the time is divided between his homes in Manhattan and Washington, where he works at being president of the National Gallery. He employs three pilots to fly his Gulfstream jet so that one will always be available. During the summer he will often swim at Cape Cod in the morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature...
...Yippie radical of the late '60s and member of the Chicago Seven, who mellowed after dabbling in a long succession of New Consciousness therapies of the '70s; and Mimi Leonard, 29, a New York socialite and an assistant to a documentary producer at ABC News; in Manhattan...
DIED. James Whitney Fosburgh, 67, portrait and landscape painter who under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served as chairman of a special committee to buy American paintings for the White House; of cancer; in Manhattan...