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Rabbits & Flies. The environment into which Nelson was born on July 8, 1908 appeared to need no working on. Grandfather John Davison Rockefeller had hammered together the Standard Oil Trust and amassed a billion dollars along the way. Grandfather Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, at the time senior Senator from Rhode Island, ruled the Senate and bellowed at the White House. The young Rockefellers, obviously, had wealth, power and prestige. But they were allowed to revel in none of the three. Instead, they learned their gentle father's code: "Every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession...
...RHODE ISLAND...
...ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough up another $10 million...
...after his wearing, crisis-packed summer, President Eisenhower both wanted and needed a vacation. At week's end he flew off to Newport, R.I., for the second straight year, packing 135 still-unsigned congressional bills in his baggage. Stepping from Columbine III, he squinted at the sun-spangled Rhode Island sky, smiled like a new man: "I hope my golf is as good as the weather...
Most important alibi of all was the weather: Sceptre had lost to Evaine in light airs and in sheltered waters. She was designed to be at her best in the rough autumn winds expected off Newport when the cup races start in September. "We fed statistics about Rhode Island conditions into our calculations," said Test-Tank Superintendent Bill Crago, who helped choose the winner from the eight designs submitted to Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron. "Out came Sceptre...