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Grand Rapids remains predominantly Calvinistic, and white, with non-whites comprising 11% of the population. There is a distinct attitude of tolerance. The present mayor, Abe Drasin, is a Jew; his predecessor was a black. Says Drasin, as he gazes from his office in Vandenberg Center: "This is a city of contrasts. It is a bastion of the radical right, and yet there is a substantial liberal population." Lyndon Johnson, for example, took 57% of the vote in 1964, v. 43% for Barry Gold water. In 1972 Richard Nixon beat George Mc-Govern by almost exactly the same margin...
...wise and watchful country lawyer Charles Kirbo, sat motionless and listened. He had traveled from Atlanta to Washington to gather complaints and advice about the stalled campaign. There, in Scoop Jackson's office, he went before a dozen Senators-veterans like Fritz Rollings of South Carolina and Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, and newcomers like Colorado's Gary Hart and Florida's Richard Stone. One of them thought that the gray and silent Kirbo looked like a possum, unmoving and wary. He had brought with him top Carter agents, Landon Butler and Jack Watson, who sat scribbling into...
...garage, he said. He shrugged off many of the complaints -but not all. Said he: "It helps us see the flaws. Jimmy's going to have to keep the pressure on Ford. It might mean a few mistakes, but that can't scare us. If Abe Lincoln hadn't kept shoving, the South might have won the war. His generals all wanted to sit still-the way Ford sits in the White House...
...nights before the stadium mob scene, 1,000 police had protested next to Gracie Mansion, Mayor Abe Beame's residence. They set off firecrackers, clanged garbage-can lids, blocked traffic, and shouted "Wake up, wake up!" through the streets of one of Manhattan's most fashionable neighborhoods...
...Abe Lincoln had many skills, but the New England Journal of Medicine recalls one that contemporary doctors (and their lawyers) may especially appreciate. In 1856, while he was practicing law in the Springfield, Ill., area, the future President was asked by two physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with...