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...clutch of eager Democratic candidates is maneuvering energetically to replace Lindsay. Though they will not have the mayor to kick around in the campaign, all will run on an anti-Lindsay platform. The leading contender is City Controller Abe Beame, 67, a reliable if unexciting party wheelhorse. A fiscal conservative who is described by a state legislator as a "1950s liberal," Beame recalls for many New Yorkers a happier, more secure era. Competing with Beame for the moderate-to-conservative vote is Mario Biaggi, 55, a flamboyant, three-term Congressman who is the most decorated policeman in the city...
...went for its 62nd consecutive victory against its formidable crosstown rival U.S.C. In fact, the top-ranked Bruins are so steeped in talent that their bench warmers may well be the No. 2 team in the nation. Asked if there is any way to stop Wooden, Oklahoma City Coach Abe Lemons said: "Wait, and some night when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, drive a silver stake into his heart. He is unreal...
...Abe Plough, 81, made $39 million on paper last year; his 3% stock ownership in the drugmaking Schering-Plough Corp. rose to a year-end total of $105 million. Plough started in business at the age of 16 by borrowing $125 from his father in order to sell "Plough Antiseptic Healing Oil" door-to-door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year...
PROBABLY THE MAIN contenders for the "second toughest job in America" are Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi and Comptroller Abe Beame. The Democratic organization in the city would like to recycle Beame, who lost narrowly to Lindsay in 1965, but there are real questions whether the diminutive 5'2" Beame can hold the Jewish vote. As Bronx Democratic leader Pat Cunningham told a Harvard professor last week. "Let's face it. Beame's big problem is that he's mediocre...
...effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly of the unsettling idea that Queen Victoria was really Helen Hayes and the Great Emancipator was really Ray mond Massey. If anyone manages to remember The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, it will be with the conviction that Mary Todd Lincoln was really Julie Harris...