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Until a few days ago, the vice-presidential office in the Executive Office Building was empty, a bored security man tending the silence. With the Vice President off in Puerto Rico, Ann Whitman, his chief of staff, came to town to scout the space requirements and establish the Rockefeller presence. She moved with assurance and understanding, and hardly made a ripple, in contrast to the usual entry of a new man's advance guard. Having been Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary, she has spent more time in the White House and its environs than Ford and Rockefeller...
...transmission in mathematical code describing the make-up of the solar system, the inhabitants of earth, the present world population and the double helix of the heredity molecule DNA. The signal was transmitted last week by a team of U.S. scientists from the giant radio telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a vast antenna 1,000 ft. in diameter lining a natural bowl formed by hills. The target was Messier 13, a cluster of some 300,000 stars located on the remote fringe of the Milky Way. Addressed simply to "Occupants" of any planets that may be orbiting Messier...
Canales was a six-medal winner for his native Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Games last summer while Gordon is a national record holder in the breaststroke in South Africa. "Gordon has been very successful on a minimum training program," coach Ray Essick said yesterday. "We're going to see if he can handle a stepped-up program this winter. And Toal is as good a freshman diver as I've seen...
...Bellevue Hospital for "observation." Out of curiosity, Raab looked into the case-and ended up dogging it for eight years. He proved that Whitmore was somewhere else the day of the killings and helped to clear him. It took seven years to find a witness (in Puerto Rico) whose testimony exonerated Whitmore from an unrelated rape conviction. Raab wrote a book about the case (Justice in the Back Room), and CBS later bought the screen rights, transforming Raab into the fictional Kojak...
...problem last week: publicity about the fact that the Rockefeller family contributed $200,000 to President Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Less than a year later, Nixon overruled the Civil Aeronautics Board and allowed Eastern Air Lines to acquire Caribair, a financially troubled airline based in Puerto Rico. At the time, Nelson owned no Eastern stock, but his brother Laurance is currently the airline's largest individual stockholder (with 1.75%). Laurance had sent Nixon a telegram urging him to permit the merger...