Word: abe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic secrets to Russia had improved his hours in jail by dieting. With the shrunken look of an underprivileged cat, he slipped into the witness chair of a Manhattan federal courtroom one morning last week to testify against two of his old cronies. They were Chemical Engineer Abe Brothman, 36, and Brothman's assistant, spirited Miriam Moskowitz, 34, both accused of obstructing the U.S. Government's investigation of espionage...
...devastating story. He had been a Communist spy from 1935 to 1946, but he had never joined the party because U.S. party members, he said contemptuously, were "a lot of wacked-up Bohemians." In September 1941, his Russian bosses ordered him to take over the "apparatus contact" with Abe Brothman, who was then a chemical engineer for a N.Y. manufacturer. A few nights later, following instructions, he stood on a Manhattan street corner and waited until a car cruised up. He noted the license number, saw that the car was the one he was waiting...
...next three years, Abe Brothman fed the apparatus with blueprints and drawings of such top defense projects as high-octane gasoline manufacture, turbine-type airplane engines and chemical handling equipment. The Russians had set up such a good photographic laboratory in the offices of Arntorg, the Soviet trading agency, that Gold could have papers photographed and returned to Brothman within two hours...
...Abe Bernstein ignored the warning and kept on working, but without the old zip and zest. Last May he had a real heart attack-a shutdown in a branch of the artery which feeds the heart muscle. He recalls that after he went back to work, "when I went to sleep I wasn't sure I'd wake up. I lived in fear." So far his history had paralleled that of hundreds of thousands of U.S. victims of coronary disease...
...sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy now is when I overeat...