Word: abed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Presidents have spent much time posing for the portrait-bearing gold medal they get as an Inaugural gift. But Ronald Reagan not only agreed to three sittings, he had a life mask made. Only Abe Lincoln, whose likeness was sculpted in 1860, had been so masochistic. For 20 minutes the President-elect sat motionless, slathered crown to collarbone with silicone goop, straws jutting from his ears and nostrils. After the 20-minute ordeal, Sculptor Edward Fraughton pronounced him a model model: "He's used to being made up." But not quite so heavily. "Boys," cracked Reagan, "there...
...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...