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...chiefs at the Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected today and what's doing with the Laffer Curve. Let Wriston explain three of the problems that he senses worry the nation...
Success is under suspicion, heroes are under attack. "I claim that Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy, died a long time ago," Wriston continues. "And today, Abe Lincoln could never be nominated. Abe Lincoln, the fellow who did not show up at his own wedding. Abe Lincoln, who, after Ann Rutledge died, was certifiably crazy and was found wandering in the woods, mumbling to himself. Can you imagine what a great story that would have made on Channel 7? The sad fact is that we are scrutinizing our leaders and our institutions in the kind of close detail that...
Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland and now a newscaster for WNBC-TV, welcoming ex-New York Mayor Abe Beame to the staff as an urban affairs consultant: "I hope the station hasn't become the employer of last resort for ex-mayors...
...shoot Virginia Slims ads, there is a series of irritating mix-ups with taxis, ending with Tiegs standing in the snow at the wrong address. She is going to be late, and she hates that; it is unprofessional. But she reassures the embarrassed driver, and when she reaches Photographer Abe Seltzer's studio on West 22nd Street, she is unruffled, full of hellos...
...lecturers here this week are of the stature of Abe or George, or even John Connally who spoke Tuesday night in the Harvard Science Center on "Government: Its Uses and Abuses" (the latter is, some say, his area of expertise), but some pretty good lectures, as well as some rather obscure ones...