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A Rockefeller Will Live In Harlem SlumYoung Laurance Says It’s Only NaturalBy ROBERT HOLTON NEW YORK (AP) — Laurence Rockefeller, one of the world’s richest young men, wants to move out of his family’s Fifth Avenue duplex and into a Harlem tenement where he can live and work with the poor “Every time a Rockefellersays he wants to do something like this, people right away think it’s unnatural,” said the nephew of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller.“But actually, for me, it’s the natural thing,” he explained. “It’s natural for me to want to go somewhere and help people.”To achieve that end, Rockefeller, 22, hopes to join VISTA, the federal government’s do-mestic Peace Corps team working now in the slums of Harlem.“I haven’t yet made any formal application because of several reasons,” he said. “One is that T didn’t want word to get out about my plans until after the election.PUBLICITY?“Some people might think it was just to get publicity for my uncle’s campaign.”Bui word of his desires did leak out and young Rockefeller said, “It is very embarrassing for me, especially since nothing forma! has been done yet.”As a member of the Army Reserve Strategic Intelligence Corps, he said he is subject to call for six months of active duty.“But they have been slow in calling the Reserves and I am hoping I will be able to apply for and get into the VISTA corps before I am called.”As a VISTA worker, Rockefeller said he would live full lime in Harlem, being given only money enough for room and food and $50 for every month I serve.” He says he would serve until called to active Army duty.“I have been doing things on my own for some time now,” he said. “I spent a vacation in Venezuela in 1962 and lived in a ranch house where roaches tried to crawl into my mouth when I was asleep and rats ran around inside the walls.NOT SHOCKED “I have been on rough fishing trips and X flew around the world in a small plane. .So I don’t think 111 be too shocked at what I find.”His desire to join the domestic Peace Corps was described in part by Rockefeller as “carrying on in the tradition of the family.”LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER Doing ‘natural thing’
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St Joseph Herald Press
St Joseph, Michigan, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1966
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