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John D. Rockefeller's best-known son was Nelson-four-time Governor of New York, a man of great energy and stamina who harvested Venezuelan chili peppers with the same zest that he collected modern art. Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for all his wealth and organization he could not sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes...
...discuss what I talk to the President about, because if I did, I would undermine the one thing that matters-the confidentiality and the trust that I think exist between us." His reticence grows from fears of being shut out. "I don't want to end up like Nelson Rockefeller, miserable in the job because the staff cut him off at the knees...
...geared up to meet the computer-security challenge. Nearly 500 of its agents have taken courses in electronic crime detection. Congress, however, has been slower to respond. Representative Bill Nelson of Florida introduced a bill last summer that would make computer tampering a federal crime, punishable by fines and imprisonment of up to five years, but the legislation has languished in committee as the lawmakers have concentrated on economic issues...
This section of the Met, which completes the last phase of its expansion, has been a long time coming. It was conceived by the late Nelson Rockefeller as a memorial to his son Michael, who died in 1961 at the age of 23 while collecting artifacts made by the Asmat people of western New Guinea. Young Rockefeller is thought to have drowned at sea; no trace of him was ever found. Though his contribution to anthropology was slight, he brought back quite a lot of Asmat art, and the works of this previously obscure swamp folk have been given...
...course, the new wing contains a great deal more than Asmat art, or even New Guinea art in general. Nelson Rockefeller was a voracious collector of primitive art as such, and almost everything he owned-the 3,500 or so objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number...