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...President dispatched Adviser Abe Fortas to Atheneum Publishers with a collection of his speeches to be turned into a book, ordered early payment of $234 million in veterans' insurance dividends to get more cash into circulation. There was a long lunch with Dean Acheson, followed by high praise for Acheson's outlook on foreign affairs, and there was a long private talk with a few reporters about what a crackerjack Defense Secretary Robert McNamara is. The President talked so convincingly of tight budgeting with visiting U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Edwin Neilan that Neilan, a registered Republican, emerged...
...longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman and a bit closer than he was to Kennedy. And then there is Lawyer Abe Fortas, 53, a New Deal brain-truster who served as F.D.R.'s Under Secretary of the Interior, and more recently has been retained as an attorney for a Johnson protege, ousted Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Gene Baker...
...hydrogen fuel tank. With Centaur already 18 months behind schedule and Congressmen crying inept management NASA shifted the program from Marshall Space Flight Center, where Wernher von Braun's team was primarily concerned with the Saturn program, to the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. There tough-minded Director Abe Silverstein, 55, took charge...
...shadowy for the people of the Yaak. At the Fields' place, for example, the lights will brighten walls that are hung with old rifles, a couple of powder horns, pictures of relatives in high lace collars and, of course, a photo of the President of the U.S.-Abe Lincoln...
...sings from a stage bare of any decoration but the evening's credo, Für Weill, written in chalk against a black wall. With an excellent Weillian pianist named Abe Stokman to accompany her, she approaches each of Weill's many moods, relying only on her powerful gift for expression to keep the chameleonic program together. Will Holt, a showman who shares the stage, does his bit in the wicked-wise style common to Weill-Brecht productions, but Schlamme's dulcet performance enriches the irony Weill's Berlin songs depend upon. Her voice never sugars...