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...most famous, and in some quarters, most infamous, scions of two of America's most famous and infamous patrician clans have bared it all. Or at least, all they feel like baring. By fate, coincidence, or contingency Nelson Rockefeller and Corliss Lamont, nabobs of Standard Oil and the House of Morgan, respectively, have hung heaps of autobiographical linen out to dry at the same time. Modern detergents and public relations notwithstanding, only one man comes out clean in the wash...
September 22: Nelson Rockefeller tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that he paid no federal income tax in 1970. He earned $2.5 million that year (but paid $7 million in capital gains taxes.) Newspapers bury the story deep in their reports on his testimony...
...Samuels, a four-time primary candidate, was "in bed with the bosses" and blitzed his rival with a series of television commercials that artfully plugged his New Deal concern for social welfare and justice. In November, Carey will face Republican Governor Malcolm Wilson, 60, who inherited the job when Nelson Rockefeller resigned last December...
...White Comedy earned a notice on the White House enemies list for its Marxist director, Emile de Antonio. Last week Washington Columnist Jack Anderson added some new perspective to the film's history when he revealed that Millhouse was partly financed by three nieces of Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller. According to Anderson, Peggy and Abby, daughters of Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, and Laura, daughter of Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller, together anted up $37,000 of the movie's $200,000 cost. A Rockefeller family spokesman confirmed that the women had indeed made an investment (though...
...until 1968 that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, through a combination of power and guile, finally got rid of the by then 80-year-old Moses. Rockefeller is also a man who does not take no for an answer, as well as a politician singularly immune to pressure from banks and labor unions...