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...Illinois Pavilion, Audio-ani-matronic Abe Lincoln, who had been suffering from electronic megrims until engineers fiddled with the circuitry that makes his eyes blink, his voice rasp and his hands gesture, began to work. Abe rose to greet 500 people at a time, pushed back his coattails and gave them a ten-minute talk on liberty, gleaned from six of his speeches: "What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts . . . Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage...
...single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn't break there. In the seven months that Abe Rosenthal has been the Times's metropolitan editor, this conviction-and Timesmen's leg muscles-has gotten plenty of exercise...
...paper who felt that the boss had lost his mind. In 15 years Rosenthal proved to be one cf the paper's liveliest and most perceptive foreign correspondents, but he had little administrative experience. Says Catledge: "I was asked, 'Why plant a crack foreign correspondent like Abe in the newsroom?' My answer is: 'Why did they put Nashua out to stud when he was winning races...
...Times may not yet have fully earned its merit badge as a local paper, but Abe Rosenthal has at least got everybody working for one. "It's sometimes forgotten," he said last week, "that the New York Times is a paper for New Yorkers. This is a hell of a sophisticated city, and the paper should reflect it. I want to make the standards for local writing and reporting at least as high as anything else in the paper. And maybe higher...
...part the fair is Mainstreet cum Madison Avenue out of control, a veritable phantasmagoria of garish commercialism. But even the blatantly tawdy has its fascination. So does the sideshow atmosphere of a Ford convertible ride to Walt Disney's dinosaur-land and "Space City," an "audio-animatronic" Abe Lincoln, and a Ferris Wheel disguised as a giant tire...