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...time he seemed more stable. His father, a loan collector in an Atlanta bank, gave him money for a round-the-world trip. In June 1979, the stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) Chapman married Gloria Abe, the attractive Japanese American who planned the itinerary. Though Chapman earned only $4 an hour as a security guard, money seems not to have been a problem: the couple lived in a $400-a-month apartment in a downtown Honolulu highrise, and Chapman was able to indulge his newest passion, art. He bought expensive works and last year purchased...
...York Times's sprawling headquarters on Manhattan's West 43rd Street, Executive Editor Abe Rosenthai gathered some top staff members to announce what he described as a "very good" development: "We're going to have some better competition here in New York City." Downtown, at the offices of the scrappy but financially hemorrhaging New York Post, Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch was not quite so cheery...
Should the special prosecutor want to talk to Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the Times, about the leak, Rosenthal would want "six lawyers at my side." The Times officials hesitate to discuss the subject publicly for fear of prejudicing any later legal claim to the right to remain silent. But it is not hard to discover the Times's attitude. It frequently knows and doesn't publish the news that prominent figures are under investigation. What made Abscam different, the Times feels, was the sheer size and expense of the FBI operation, almost like a Bay of Pigs...
...Fleming carressing the twines from long range, with freshman dynamo Calvin Dixon adding a touch of flash and sophomore Robert Taylor contributing a bit of poise, Harvard looked capable of upending the proud Texans. And no one realized that more than the master of verbal voraciousness himself, Texas coach Abe Lemons...
MORE FROM ABE LEMONS: "Size didn't help us at all tonight. They [UT players] weren't jumping. They don't jump in practice--they're out there yawning...