Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter Washington years, Modern Republican Rockefeller clashed more and more often with such Administration conservatives as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph Dodge, who thought his suggestions sometimes too expensive, and Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., who frequently thought them too bold. In 1955 Rockefeller quit Washington, went home to New York. Friends are certain that somewhere along in here he resolved to try for office himself. "He felt," said a friend, "he had to run for elective office, because nobody really paid any attention to someone who was only an appointee...
...nearly $4,000,000 worth of charities and special projects a year, from adoption agencies to zoos and including the impressive Rockefeller Reports (initiated by Nelson Rockefeller) on U.S. defenses, economy and education. And he pays special attention to his duties as chairman of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, fostered by his mother...
...Rockefeller's gripping hobby. He has gathered 1,500 primitive pieces, another 1,000 oils, etchings and lithographs, almost all modern. Says Adviser Rene d'Harnoncourt, director of the Modern Museum: "Anyone who is such a doer gets a special kick out of his times." Some of the best items are in the Rockefellers' 27-room triplex apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, others at the family's 3,000 acre estate in Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown. Rockefeller has built a house in the shadow of the family mansion, where his father still spends...
...King of the Ashanti. His rich cocoa-growing and gold-mining territory furnishes the bulk of Ghana's revenue, and in the days before independence his well-stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control. Desperately seeking to save his skin and his stool, the Asantehene has been making overtures of friendship to Nkrumah. He issued a declaration transferring his allegiance from...
...pantheon, is black and terrible. Death and destruction are her province; her eyes and the palms of her four hands are red, her tongue protrudes, corpses are her earrings and around her neck is a string of skulls. In times gone by, Kali was occasionally offered human sacrifices; in modern India she must make do with the blood of goats. But not always...