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David Rockefeller, a scion of the country’s greatest fortune who melded banking, diplomacy and philanthropy to spread his vision of American capitalism around the globe, died Monday in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. He was 101 years old.
Mr. Rockefeller, the grandson of oil baron John D. Rockefeller Sr., was the last of a generation in an illustrious family that included Nelson Rockefeller, a governor of New York and Vice President; Winthrop…