May 15, 1971, Page 18Buy Reprints
John D. Rockefeller 3d will retire June 30 from the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, after 40 years of service, nearly half of them as board chairman.
His successor will be C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and a trustee of the foundation since 1965. The 65‐year‐old Mr. Rockefeller was elected honorary chairman, but he will not be active in foundation affairs. Mr. Dillon is the first non‐Rockefeller to lead the foundation since John Foster Dulles in 1952.
The Rockefeller Foundation, established in 1916, has assets with a market value of $700‐million and it has disbursed more than $1.09‐billion in support of educational, scientific, health, economic, social and artistic projects. Since 1963 it has appropriated more than $45million for programs in population stabilization, a field that has particularly interested Mr. Rockefeller.
Students at President Nixon's alma mater, Whittier College in California, rejected by a vote of 646 to 249 a resolution asking Whittier's trustees to revoke the President's honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The 20member student senate had passed the resolution as a protest against the war in Southeast Asia. On another proposal the students voted in favor of the withdrawal of all American troops from Indochina by the end of the year.
Donald K. (peke) Slayton, the astronaut administrator, paid an unusual penalty, after pleading guilty to pulling in three rainbow trout in closed waters in Naknek, Alaska. The judge suspended the $50 fine on condition that Mr. Slayton address the community grammar school, which is in the same building as the court. Mr. Slayton cheerfully paid the “fine,” then voluntarily visited Naknek High School.
Four claims by Gore Vidal, the author, that William F. Buckley Jr., the editor and columnist, had defamed him by calling him in print a “pornographer” and a producer of “perverted prose” were dismissed in New York by Federal Judge Richard H. Levet.
Mr. Vidal offered the claims to counter a suit by Mr. Buckley for $1 ‐million for defamation of character on the ground that Mr, Vidal had called him “a pro ‐crypto Nazi.”
Granting a pretrial motion to dismiss the counter‐claims, Judge Levet held that in offering the public a book with the contents of “Myra Breckinridge,” a novel about transvestite, Mr. Vidal had exposed himself to such criticism, even if no reasonable man would agree that the criticism was warranted.
In Buenos Aires, a judge ruled that Juan D. Peron, the exiled Argentine dictator, would no longer have to face trial on a charge of statutory, rape, filed against him in absentia 13 years ago, He was accused of living illicitly with Nelly Rivas, 13 years old, in 1954 and 1955. The court ruled the charge void because of the statute of limitations, and now Perlin, who lives in Spain, is technically able to return home, although it is believed that he is unlikely to do so.
David Frost, the television personality, had quite a scare in New York. The helicopter he was riding in on a trip from Westbury, L. I., to the heliport at 30th Street and 12th Avenue lost power as it reached the Manhattan side of the East River, and the pilot, David McAdams, made a forced landing in the Sheep Meadow in Central Park. No one was injured. Mr. Frost and an associate, the other passenger in the helicopter, took a taxi to the Little Theater on 44th Street for the taping of a 90‐minute show with Johnny Cash.
Walter J. Rickel, dismissed by President Nixon as Secretary of the Interior, is making political sounds about 1972. Associates say he enjoyed the national limelight and did not give up Washington easily. Lately he's been making extensive speaking tours, in which he often describes a “new breed” of leadership he would like to see in this ‘country. He says that that breed combines the best qualities of business and politics—qualities Mr. Hickel acknowledges he possesses. Recently he told newsmen he was thinking of entering the New Hampshire Presidential primary.
It was, perhaps, inevitable. Tiny Tim, who trilled his way to fame with his high‐pitched rendition of “Tiptoe Through the Tulips,” has named his daughter, born last Monday, Tulip Victoria Maury. Tim, whose legal name is Herbert Ithaury, took his wife Victoria home from Doctors Hosp:tal yesterday.
ALBIN KREBS.