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An The Ttmes-Reporter—Z Tues.. Doc. 15. 1970Winthrop Rockefeller:where will he go now?B\ ROBERT CAREYLITTLE ROCK. Ark. (L’PI) -W i n t h r o p Rockefeller u ho adopted Arkansas 17 years ago, look a bad beating at the hands of Arkansas voters Nov. 3 when lie tried for a third term as governor.It was an especially hard blow Since he had deemed it necessary. more than the other members of bus famous family, to prove his merit, lie had been called the black sheep, the playboy Rockefeller, and few men in public life had received a worse pressMore than a month after his loss he was coming out of the depression But his plans are Uncertain, his next move undecided.It took Winthrop Rockefeller a long time to keep reporters from tagging him with that inevitable identification line in their .stores — younger brother of New York Gov. Nelon Rock efeller.Jt took even longer to live down all that •Bobo business, and the more than million settlement he paid his former Wife. Fie divorced Mrs. Barbara (Bobo Sears) Rockefeller in 1954. the year after he moved to Arkansas.family settled on Petit Jean Mountain northwest of Little Rock with its great view of the rolling Arkansas River and surrounded by the 6000 verdant acres of Winrock Farms, which he purchased to go with it.He embraced Arkansas life with enthusiasm, was appointed chairman of the Industrial Development Commission and turned loose some of his millions. Up went buildings, housing developments and an arts center He pumped money into schools, hospitals and education programs He got busy in the state’s mothy old Republican party and soon it was moving and shaking.In 1961. the Rockefeller they used to call a ladies man. who (|Uit Yale to go roughnecking in the Texas oil fields, was named Republican national committeeman for Arkansas.He tried for governor in 1964 and lost to six-term leader Or-val Faubus, considered unbeatable by anyone. The next time around Faubus stepped down and Rockefeller won, the first GOP governor of Arkansas since Reconst ruction. He won again in 1968 and this year nerved m chairman of the Soul hern Governors Conference.,The rebel the RockefellerH inthrop Korkcfeller speaks ral rally in Little Rock. Ark. 1 was taken list June — before I who adopted Arkania* 17 years *But In No\ember, his try for athird term was defeated by a country lawyer, a Democrat with the unlikely name of Dale L. Bumpers.For three days Rockefeller did not see anyone. He made no statement election night nor did he appear the next day. He waa,! they said, a ( rushed man.Then he held the obligatory press conference and there were tears in hi* eyea. Did he think he would lose that badly? Scsir, I did not. The voice was steady.Rockefeller, now 58, says he will stay on in his adopted state By his own estimate he has invested $35 million in Arkansas. But for the moment, life is a little painful and speculation on any fu t u r e political involvement, odious.•i’m entitled to some time off.” he said. I propose to take a little time to replenish myself physically. Then, he said, he will take another look at the world and Arkansas.
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Tue, Dec 15, 1970
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