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...story was written by Associate Editor Edwin Warner and researched by Alexandra Rich. Author of TIME'S Nelson Rockefeller cover story (Sept. 2), and of many major Nation stories on Gerald Ford, Warner himself is no stranger to political pressures, having served as campaign manager of a powerful New York City political club. Almost fatally bitten by the political bug, Warner finally chucked the idea of running for office. Why? In large part because his wife would have none...
...Nelson Rockefeller's stock and bond portfolio, like the man, is basically conservative-with a tendency to take an occasional flyer into the unknown...
There are also some modest investments in companies that were once thought to have promising futures as investments, but have faded of late: Intel, Coherent Radiation, Scan Data. At least one case involved a company that Nelson's brother Laurance had bankrolled: Itek. Says Reginald Oliver, director of research at Pershing & Co.: "Lots of trusts absolutely wouldn't be permitted to buy such things...
...days last week, Nelson Rockefeller testified before the Senate Rules Committee in order to nail down a job that he had long insisted he would never take. In so doing, Rockefeller, 66, had to answer questions about his personal fortune that he has brushed aside throughout his 34 eventful years in public life. More than any man in the room, Rockefeller seemed to appreciate the irony of his situation. The descendant of robber barons cum philanthropists cum public servants, he wears the mantle of his heritage with easy grace, and he handled the Senators so adroitly that what could have...
Lamont's autobiographical venture came at a time when he saw Dartmouth's "Most Likely to Succeed" of 1930, Nelson Rockefeller, a heartbeat away from the temporal world's highest office. Maybe the inherent injustice in an ordering of the world in which Nelson Rockefeller can be president prodded Lamont to grab, finally, at immortality. If so, Voice in the Wilderness represents his most thoroughly human act to date...