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AMONG the perils of reporting this week's cover story on David Rockefeller, Correspondent Marshall Berges counts a rocky trip from New York to Maine with his subject aboard a Beechcraft. They put down at Rockland in rough weather. Unable to go on, they tramped up and down U.S. 1 in the rain, only to find every motel flashing a "No Vacancy" sign. "I wasn't really worried," says Berges. "I figured that if things really got desperate, Rockefeller would buy us a motel...
Kline, who is research director at New York's Rockland State Hospital and a pioneer in the use of drugs for severe mental illness, charged that public health officials have mostly refused to learn about the new drugs, and that some were actively blocking the use of new knowledge. The foot draggers, he said, included even psychiatrists and social workers who led the fight, decades ago, for more humane treatment of the mentally...
...York's Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Robert Soblen was looked upon as a crack psychiatrist, even if a crusty one. He took a fatherly interest in the 100 mentally distressed adolescent boys in his care, saw to it that they had weekly jukebox parties, inspired them to learn trades, helped many of them to rehabilitate themselves. Respecting his professional skill, other doctors overlooked his personal quirks: a nervous temper, a streak of arrogance. Many knew but few cared that Robert Soblen was the brother and image of confessed Communist Spy Jack Soble, sentenced in 1957 to seven years...
...population boom in these suburban counties, which include Westchester and Rockland also, has sent registration figures soaring, making this area the wheel on which the state turns politically...
...Flintstone could ask her husband to please pass the basalt and pepper, and in redoing the kitchen, she could be for marble table tops, while he is for mica. In the next few weeks the Flintstones and their neighbors will be in and out of a jazz palace called Rockland and a movie set where The Monster from the Tar Pits is being made with Gary Granite and Rock Pile. They even get a mysterious visit from Perry Gunnite, private eye-a petrified, would-be mason who covers up his insecurities by asking toughly for "rocks on the rocks...