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...idea of moving East, Miss Peterson concedes, makes her feel "like a latter-day Abe Lincoln coming out of the wilderness...
Beyond the Suburbs. Brooklyn-born Levitt, who began building houses on Long Island in 1929 with his late father Abe and his late brother Alfred, solved his management problem painfully. After losing $763,155 in 1961, he decentralized his operations, surrounded himself with youthful aides (the average age of his five senior vice presidents is 43), began training second-echelon executives because "there's no place for us to steal talent from." Wall Street has responded to Levitt's resulting 20%-a-year growth by lifting the price of Levitt & Sons stock on the American Stock Exchange from...
...dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong...
...whose members, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, was appointed last month as Westmoreland's deputy and likely successor...
...that is so, Lyndon Johnson stands to lose a lot of friends. He has already named one Justice, Abe Fortas, and it does not look as though Tom Clark will leave the only vacancy in the next few years. Time must soon tell on Hugo Black, 81, Earl Warren, 76, William O. Douglas, 68, and John M. Harlan, 67, whose sight is failing. Should Johnson be returned to office next year, he could wind up naming six Supreme Court Justices, the third highest presidential record* after Washington's ten and F.D.R.'s nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology...