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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400330026-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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1'he Stevenses as a Christmas party at Fort McNair here
last December. Left to right: Granddaughter, Melanie Mrs. Stevens and little Marney Bruce, a guest.
He is popular with his -neighbors there.
One of them commented: "Nothing
flashy about him. He drives a Chevrolet
when out here."
Stevens, a, religious man, has a feeling
for history and for; his own place in U.
In Washington, he attends the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, ' where
President Lincoln worshiped. Last year,
he and his family were invited to sit in
the Lincoln pew when the one-hundred
fiftieth anniversary of the church was
celebrated.
"It was a great thrill," he says, "to sit
there and turn over in one's mind the
problems that President Lincoln had
faced and the ones that I faced."
ONE OF STEVENS' strongest charac- cattle farm near Leesburg, Va. Whitney,
teristics is his feeling for his family. 27, like his brother, was a Navy ensign
He likes to tell stories about his father, in World War II. Now he is a salesman
the, founder of the Stevens Mills, and for the Stevens mills in New York.
he always wanted to follow in his foot-
steps. After Phillips Andover, Yale and Daughter Joan, 25, who took shortband
the Army, he entered the mills and took and typing at finishing school, is a rec-
over at his father's death. His own five retary here with the CIA. Son Bill, 22,
children and three grandchildren are an ~.is an Army corporal in Germany. He re-
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nit family. Fused a college deferment and
papers headithed Stevens'
"surrender" to,-McCarthy sik weeks a?o. physical waiver to enlist two
his elder sons immediately came to
Washington to he with him.
The eldest, Robert Ten Broeck, Jr., 29,
is married to the daughter of Author
Louis Bromfield and recently bought a
Stevens; son, Robert T. Stevens, jr.; Secretary Stevens,
got a
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