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...battle unprepared for the war they would have to fight. Again, in October 1950, moving among dazed, defeated soldiers in Korea, he vowed not to be bound by the "school solution." In the Pentagon, Johnson has labored devotedly to instill those lessons. Cigar-chomping Army Vice Chief of Staff "Abe" Abrams, an iron-nerved commander who led Patton's tanks to relieve the siege of Bastogne, calls him "the toughest man I have ever known." Moreover, General Johnson expects the other 1,016,920 soldiers in his Army to be equally tough. "What an individual can do depends...
Liberalism was failing, he suggested, because of its marriage to the "corporate system." Pointing to the Dominican crisis. Oglesby ran down a list of U.S. advisers who owned stock in companies with investments in the Dominican Republic--Ellsworth Bunker, Abe Fortas. Adolph Berle, and Averill Harriman's brother...
...vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court upheld the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund argument that Shuttlesworth's conviction denied him his constitutional rights. In a tart concurring opinion, Justice Abe Fortas lambasted the conviction as a "façade" for hounding Shuttlesworth because of his leadership of Negro store boycotts. Shuttlesworth may have annoyed the cop, said Fortas, "but a policeman's lot is not a happy one-and certainly, in context, Shuttlesworth's questions did not rise to the magnitude of an offense against the laws of Alabama...
...strong endorsement, weakly delivered. It didn't help. The voters gave Lindsay 46% of their ballots, Beame 40.6% and Buckley 13.4%. Buckley had hoped to demonstrate a resurgence of conservative Republicanism, but he drew his most potent support from normally Democratic Irish, Polish, Italian (and Catholic) areas. Though Abe Beame held out the promise of becoming New York's first Jewish mayor, the usually Democratic Jewish vote went heavily for Lindsay-particularly in upper-income neighborhoods...
...turned out to be just the kind of dramatic local story that the Times's Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthal likes. It was a fresh and surprising New York sidebar to Ku Klux Klan investigations in Washington and Klan murders in the South. Phillips revealed that a top Klan Kleagle, Daniel Burros, 28, a violent anti-Semite, had been brought up as an Orthodox...