Word: abe
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...Abe Abrams, 52, has been Army Vice Chief of Staff since September 4, 1964, the day he pinned on his fourth star. He will take over from Lieut. General John A. Heintges, who has been named Deputy U.S. Army Commander in Europe. The appointment of a full general to replace a lieutenant general underscores speculation that Abrams will ultimately succeed Westmoreland. Abrams, who has just returned from his third inspection tour of the war zone, considers the present U.S. force level (435,000) in Viet Nam "about right...
...moment to this trinity of matters. The ADA in the past has had its political base in a rough coalition between unattached liberals and liberal trade unionists. So I trust it will continue to be. We shall continue to find strength in our alliance with men like Walter Reuther, "Abe" Abel, Louis Stohlberg and others who believe in their old-fashioned way that liberalism is the cause of the worker. But we must also be aware that large sections of the labor movement are no pillar of liberal strength. On the contrary the leadership is aged, contented and deeply somnambulant...
Unique & Flexible. The opinion was glumly received. Justice Abe Fortas, in an unusually strong dissent, praised the merger as "unique," applauded the ICC for "flexibility" in its approach to Eastern railroad problems, and criticized his colleagues for "a reversion to the days of judicial negation of governmental action in the economic sphere...
...finished product, "and they were going to have us driving in a cage over the most beautiful bay in the world." He once complained: "Although I am not especially eager for my daughter to marry one, some of my best friends are engineers." Says Chronicle City Editor Abe Mellinkoff: "Temko's stuff is just as salable as a murder in the Tenderloin...
Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like...