Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around the country, and were advised not to criticize the police. At the same time, Nixon did not want to be in the position of endorsing repressive police measures. In the end, he took the same tack that he had taken on both Viet Nam and the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. The whole matter, he pronounced, was simply too important for partisan politics. Judgment should await the results of an investigation by the President's commission on violence: "I think that political figures should not make partisan comments from the sidelines...
...nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee ever since President Johnson sent the nomination to the Senate on June 26. Last week, as Congress reconvened after the conventions, the committee was once again scheduled to consider his appointment. This time, its members did not even field a quorum to review the issue...
...CARATS, a French import directed by Abe Burrows. Middle-aged woman loves young man; her teen-age daughter loves "older...
California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
OGUNQUIT, ME., Playhouse. A spinsterish dental nurse turns bewitching temptress in Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower...