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LAURANCE S. ROCKEFELLER, 63, often called "America's Mr. Conservation." The third son of John D. Jr., he has given family land outright to the U.S. (33,500 acres to Grand Teton National Park, 5,000 acres to the Virgin Islands National Park); Rockefeller-started resorts in St. John, Puerto Rico and Hawaii pay for maintaining surrounding areas of unspoiled natural beauty. Laurance Rockefeller serves on state and federal commissions, including recent task force on land use and urban growth. His philosophy: "Land-use planning is essential to environmental quality and good urban growth, and to this...
...Your report concerning crime in the Virgin Islands [Aug. 27] attempts to define it in these terms: "A homicide rate higher than that of New York City...
...while you are factually correct when you say that the Virgin Islands has "a homicide rate higher than that of New York City," it is gratuitous and unfair to cite New York for that tragic comparison. The fact is that among the nation's major cities, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Memphis, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Phila delphia all have 1973 homicide rates higher than New York...
...reached the mid-90s, but the men doggedly marched on, carrying a coffin heaped with flowers. Before them, behind them, some 5,000 striking vineyard workers and their supporters trudged along. Some of them carried the blackeagle flags of the United Farm Workers Union, others a banner portraying the Virgin Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers of California. While picketing at a vineyard south of Delano...
...this strange behavior, so different from their Emily, disturbed my parents somewhat when they whisked me off to the Virgin Islands on a vacation. They suggested I see a doctor, a head doctor that is, and I was incredulous. Still naive and laughing, I chalked it up to "identity crisis." I returned to Cambridge full of good intentions which lasted all of a week. I ended up, finally, in a mental hospital in Chicago. There they put me through an intensive psychoanalysis and I discovered that I hated...