Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many thanks for the May 30 cover story of Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky and especially for TIME'S "timely" reporting of Paris Reporter Blunden's 17-year-old notes. I am now looking forward to your staff's coverage of Abe Lincoln's assassination...
...Abraham Lincoln made a phone call from Gettysburg to his press-agent in Manhattan. Abe was rebellious. He was going to shave his beard and wear a cardigan. The flack demanded that he keep the beard, shawl, stovepipe and string tie, or he would wreck his "image." Abe then announced that he had his speech neatly typed, and this distressed the flack even more. "Abe," pleaded the pressagent, "how many times have we told you: on-the-backs-of-envelopes...
...Tiros I spun skyward last week, a stocky, dark-thatched man sat in NASA's Washington headquarters, scanning electronic returns and helping nurse the new space baby into orbit. He was Abe Silverstein, NASA's director of space flight programs, and a living answer to the notion that able scientists do not enjoy working for government. Silverstein has been employed by the U.S. government for 30 of his 51 years, and he still likes his job well enough to stay at it for ten or eleven hours a day and for six days a week during peak periods...
...aircraft all have components designed at Lewis. Indeed, says a Silverstein aide, "there is hardly a plane flying that does not have a piece of Abe...
...hard-driving administrator with a sharp tongue, Silverstein moved from Cleveland to NASA's Washington headquarters in 1958, bringing with him ten Lewis Laboratory scientists. Recalls one: "We didn't really want to come to Washington. We came purely because Abe asked us to." Since then, most of Silverstein's relaxing pastimes have vanished into space: about all he has time for is taking his three children to the Washington zoo on Sunday mornings. But for Abe Silverstein, dedicated public scientist, the job is worth...