Word: restlessness
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Michael Rockefeller was the most out-giving-and the most restless-of the Governor's three sons and two daughters. In undergraduate days at Harvard he sometimes submerged his restlessness in speed; he was flagged down once by Maine police for racing 80 m.p.h. on the Maine Turnpike; another time troopers caught him speeding on a Connecticut parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career...
Seven Dead, Dozen Wounded. To film and record customs of New Guinea's partly tamed head-hunting tribes, the Harvard expedition hiked into the island's midland wilderness. To a restless spirit, the jungle appealed. Rockefeller grew a beard, Indian-wrestled with companions until he became the expedition champion. He carried out enthusiastically his assignment as sound technician, taping Papuan war chants and the curious teeth grinding that passes for Papuan singing...
Early next day, deciding the natives had failed, Michael Rockefeller decided to swim for shore himself. Wassing argued that the tide was against him, that they were three miles from shore. But, said Wassing, "Rockefeller's restless nature made it impossible to endure our drifting around." Mike stripped to his shorts, tied a red jerrican and the out-board's gas tank together for a buoy, and set out. Eight hours later Wassing was spotted 22 miles at sea by a Dutch patrol boat...
...fact, for purely literary reasons, the avant-garde seems self-consciously in search of a revolution. It is full (as Noble Savage itself notes) of "young men with fringe beards and triple goggles looking for something to subvert which hasn't already been overturned by the restless and discontented middle class...
...passed over that lightly. For most Russians, the Party Congress and the reburial brought the first solid evidence of Stalin's disgrace, and they talked about it with remarkable freedom. Mingling with the crowd in Red Square on a drizzly afternoon, TIME Correspondent Edmund Stevens listened to the restless, wondering voices...