Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacerated Brow. Yet Rockefeller's initial reaction was to maintain his aloof stance. Soon after arriving in Washington, he went to his 35-acre estate on Foxhall Road for a conference with his brother, Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas, and Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Agnew was eager to line up specific commitments from as many of the Republican Governors as possible, to create a draft, in effect, from that powerful group. Rockefeller and George Hinman, his chief political aide, froze the idea at once. Agnew, who had come to Washington saying it was time to stand...
...Mississippi Delta hamlet of Mound Bayou (pop. 1,354), where he runs a federally financed clinic for impoverished Negroes, some of them literally starving. The move cost Kruger $15,000 of his own money, partly for the two trailers in which his family live on a muddy road at the edge of town. His wife earns $3,800 a year teaching remedial reading; as the only whites in the local schools, his children are learning things unheard of in Newton. For the first time, Kruger feels really needed: many of his patients have never before seen a doctor...
...action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush, Oh Men! Oh Women!) but almost none of the usual Hollywood hurrah. Her road to fame in Peyton Place: a man-weary divorcee trying to bring up teen-aged daughter Tippy Walker...
...Executive Editor Howard Smith, who writes for the Village Voice, is 31. Its staff is also young and intrepid, sort of. A writer-photographer team jumped with the skydivers; another photographer dangled from a crane to shoot the cover picture of sky divers; still another lay down by the road to get a wheel's-eye view of the cycles whizzing...
Situated 100 miles east of Toronto, Point Anne boasts two schools and three churches, but no bars, movie theater or shops. Now that MacDonald's general store has closed down for lack of business, people get their supplies at Belleville, five miles down the road. The population, according to Bobby's sister Judy, 20, is "about 1,000, if you count the dogs. And about 100 if you don't." The only industry is the cement plant. And the only dash of color in the grey landscape-since Bobby left-is a huge red, white and blue...