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When Happy Rockefeller decided to toss a party for 400 or so close friends, she knew just the spot: Pocantico Hills, the family's 3,000-acre estate overlooking the Hudson near Tarrytown, N.Y. It was at the stone-walled residence that folks such as Pierre Trudeau, Henry Kissinger, Arthur Burns and Averell Harriman, helped Nelson Rockefeller celebrate his 70th birthday last week. And it is to Pocantico Hills that the Rockefellers plan to retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East...
...down 25 Ibs., to 185), reads all the way through magazines and books, sometimes gets eight hours of sleep a night, presides over quiet dinners in his Georgetown home. His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning. Private Citizen Henry Kissinger has a trick back like millions of other Americans; he also has income tax worries, difficulties with his credit card and is approacinng with some misgivings...
What do Dixon, Boise, Saint Johns, Mission, Westminster, Shirkieville, Floresville and Clio have in common? If, understandably, the light does not dawn, try this: Laurinburg, Walters, Rumford, Mitchell, Everett, Doland and Pocantico Hills. In case the riddle is still not solved, two more names should give it away: Plains and Grand Rapids...
Kissinger was fearful that Nixon's close aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (he called them "idiots" and "the Nazis") might somehow learn of these transcripts of conversations. Kissinger spirited the documents off to the Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate of Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he had long worked. But when Kissinger was reminded by one of his legal advisers that classified information must be retained on Government property, he retrieved the papers and hid them in Washington...
...geography-from the canyons of New York City to the quiet beaches of Honolulu. The week began with a helicopter ride out of Manhattan for a sedate visit with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his wife Happy at the handsome Japanese-style house they have built on their Pocantico Hills estate. Rockefeller, playing tourist in his own home, snapped souvenir photos of his distinguished visitors...