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...friend, my older brother, my inspiration and my guide." So former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described his feelings about Nelson Rockefeller in an eloquent, emotional eulogy at the funeral service in Manhattan's Riverside Church last week. While President Carter, former President Ford, Vice President Mondale, Chief Justice Burger and many other public figures listened from the nave, Kissinger paid tribute to the man who "permeated our lives...
...voice that often quavered, Kissinger declared: "That Nelson Rockefeller is dead is both shattering and nearly inconceivable. One thought him indestructible ... When the phone call came last Friday, it seemed that our relation ship had just started. And now it was already ended." Rockefeller, continued Kissinger, was "full of the moment and yet always somehow marked by destiny. He often seemed remote because he was already living in the future, which most of us had not yet understood . . . His failure to reach the presidency was in my view a tragedy for the country, yet I never heard him express even...
...popular predecessor. But in many respects the new Look, back this week after seven years, is a magazine with a split personality. As if to emphasize the fact, the first issue is being sold under two different covers. Look East, distributed as far as the Rockies, features the late Nelson Rockefeller, while Patricia Hearst smiles from the cover of Look West...
Because of the vast Rockefeller holdings in Latin America, Nelson became familiar with the area and sensitive to its needs. When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt put him in charge of a new agency, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which countered Nazi pressures and propaganda in the Southern Hemisphere. Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs in 1944, Rockefeller persuaded the countries of the continent to sign a mutual security treaty. But when Harry Truman succeeded Roosevelt, Rocky's days as an administrator in a Democratic government were over...
...DIED. Nelson A. Rockefeller, 70, millionaire, art collector and four-term Governor of New York who failed three times to win the Republican nomination for President but finally, in 1974, was appointed to the second spot; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see NATION...