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Among Army brass, the belief is strong that Abrams can handle the assignment. Said one general: "Abe will do everything that Westy has started -and that's a lot-but he will do it a little faster. Abe has a way of getting people to move fast." Among those Westmoreland efforts: the creation of a smaller, more professional and more efficient Army; improved race relations; more effective drug controls; and a reduction in rapid command turnovers...
...After Abe Fortas' scandal-clouded resignation from the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren, members of Congress and other critics called for a tightening of judicial ethics in order to eliminate ambiguities surrounding a judge's conduct of office. Last week a 14-man special committee of the American Bar Association completed a three-year study of the A.B.A.'s half-century-old code of ethics...
...Christians are increasingly conspicuous. Their number, while modest compared with the Jesus movement as a whole, is unprecedented among U.S. Jews. U.C.L.A. Campus Rabbi Shlomo Cunin estimates that young Jews are converting to Christianity at the rate of 6,000 to 7,000 a year. California Jewish Christian Evangelist Abe Schneider says he has noted more converts in the past nine months than in the previous 23 years combined...
...Abe Ford Enterprises rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...
...peel is a game of vingt et un with (among others) Benjamin Disraeli. Flashy is precipitated through a few more dead waters of Victorian history and into a series of unspeakable yet plausible adventures. Among them are a slaving voyage, a sea battle off New Orleans, a meeting with Abe Lincoln (who spots him for a fraud, but not before Flashman tosses off a nice line about fooling some of the people all of the time), and a brief term of actual enslavement. "By the time you laboured in the sun a spell, you brown up pretty good, I reckon...