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...Texas Longhorns stampeded into town yesterday afternoon, and coach Abe Lemons just happened to have a few things to say about Harvard, his own 5-0 team, and tonight's game against the Crimson...
...Japanese who were there, 40 years ago next Monday, Dec. 7, remember it as a day of breathtaking accomplishment and extraordinary luck. Lieut. Heijiro Abe was navigating the lead plane in a formation of Nakajima bombers over Pearl Harbor's "battleship row" when his chance came; a bomb from his plane soon tore into the bowels of the West Virginia. On the eastern edge of Oahu, at Bellows Field, Sub-Lieut. Iyozoh Fujita, flying a Zero fighter from the Japanese carrier Soryu on his first combat mission, saw his flight commander shot down by an enraged soldier furiously firing...
...first play, Tennessee, by Romulus Linney, a frontier family arrives at its recently-acquired shack ("We're here, ain't we?") and the father, a weatherbeaten, Abe Lincolnish icon of American spirit, makes long, slow speeches about how he "growed up crawlin' on a dirt floor like a goddamned ant" and now that the war's over he's gonna harness these here fifty acres; his wife stands awkwardly on the porch and pulls at her shawl (for the entire play, in fact); and his well-rouged son chimes in about cutting the brush over yonder. Then a badly made...
...since he had pushed Goldberg's appointment (by Kennedy) to the court, he had a right to take him off. Using his powerful personality, L.B.J. persuaded Goldberg to take the lesser job. Johnson was still working the old game when he named his long-time crony and lawyer, Abe Fortas, to succeed Warren as Chief Justice. That one fell through because of Fortas' conflict-of-interest problems and Johnson's unhappy departure from the White House...
President Bok? "On the issue of the location of the JFK Library, Bok folded as he does on almost everything. He's the Abe Ribicoff of college presidents. Whichever way the wind blows, "Goodwin charges. And he concludes: "Outside of the sciences and the professional schools, there has been some serious deterioration. But it's rich and well-built. Probably be around forever...