Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic." Following a family tradition, Rockefeller one afternoon last winter called an unpublicized family council in the 56th-floor Rockefeller Center suite from which the Rockefellers guide their worldwide enterprises and philanthropies. To his brothers he outlined his newest intention: he was anxious to run for office; some Republicans suggested he announce for Governor. Said he: "I think I'll give it a whirl...
...items are in the Rockefellers' 27-room triplex apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, others at the family's 3,000 acre estate in Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown. Rockefeller has built a house in the shadow of the family mansion, where his father still spends the winter. To show off his outdoor sculpture, he has diverted streams, moved walls, replanted the shrubbery around his white shingle Dutch colonial farmhouse...
Although the colonists were supposed to be farmers hardened to the rigors of northern winters, it was soon clear that many of them had never even been on a farm, let alone sown anything but wild oats. The first months were a long nightmare; a wheat crop failed because of a poor choice of seed. Some settlers had to stay in tents during the long dark winter. Slowly, their number dwindled (537 left in the first four years) leaving the strong and the dogged, who bought up the abandoned land. Gradually the birthrate climbed, the bulldozers and the plows...
Surrounded by personal representatives, pressagents and recording executives, Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr. strode into the mahogany-stained elegance of Manhattan's Steinway Hall one day last week to chat about his improbably skyrocketing career. During the fall and winter season, he said, he would play roughly 55 concerts with orchestras across the country. He would also throw his rehearsals open to teenagers. He drew a check for $1,250 from his pocket (part of his $6,250 Moscow prize money) and presented it to the city of New York to be used to start other young artists on their...
...American pavilion guides have nicknamed the Soviet pavilion "the refrigerator," and the monicker is appropriate. It is an unaesthetic rectangular building, as cold and impersonal as a Siberian winter. The ground-floor exhibit hall is enormous, and the stolid statue of Lenin keeps a perpetual watch on the crowds...