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...Specialization, abstraction and rhetorical overkill - all have made native wit afraid to show its face. Political candidates no longer employ the folk idiom in their speeches. Humorists rarely use the short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought t' git around where he kin watch'em." No matter how informed its consultants, how great its G.N.P., a country without that kind of wit is an underprivileged...
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Yuzuru Abe, Nippon Steel Corp.; Tadashi Arita, The Fuji Bank, Ltd.; Tatsuro Goto, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; Nobuya Hagura, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank; Akira Harada, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shoji Kambara, Ricoh Co., Ltd.; Kiyoshi Kawashima, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Kaoru Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro...
Imagine the problem now facing the scared Jewish Grandmother on the Grand Concourse! Most likely she and other moderate-to-conservative Jews will swing into the camp of 67-year-old Comptroller Abe Beame. While Beame's most visible attribute is his 5'2" height, he has the reputation of being a good fiscal manager. While Jews realize that Beame will not talk as tough as Biaggi does, they know that he will at least keep the city in the black...
UNLESS BIAGGI is completely vindicated, the obvious winner in this bizarre affair will be Abe Beame. Beame has been a good Comptroller, even if at times unable to resist petty attacks on Lindsay, whom he has never forgiven for his defeat in 1965. Beame is not regarded as terribly imaginative, but his integrity is unquestioned. Jewish voters who might normally vote for Blumenthal can pull the lever for Beame without a trace of guilt, as Beame occupies the solid center of the political spectrum. With only five weeks left before the primary, Biaggi will have to recover very fast from...
...staff members' even showing up to testify. He has thus cordoned off much of the decision-making power of his Administration. This is not without precedent. When W. DeVier Pierson, a special counsel to President Lyndon Johnson, was asked to testify at the hearings on the nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice, he refused on the grounds of Executive privilege. But White House intimates cannot always avoid appearances. Though he balked initially, Eisenhower's chief aide Sherman Adams finally testified before Congress on charges that he had brought pressure on regulatory agencies to help out friends. Shortly...