Word: abe
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IRVING KRISTOL, U.S. writer, professor and editor (The Public Interest): Abe Lincoln is the prototype-the leader who is uncommon but not beyond emulation by the common man. He's not a Napoleon. This is American democratic politics. You don't want a world conqueror. In latter days John Kennedy had that uncommon-common quality; so did both Roosevelts, T.R. and F.D.R., although they were distinctly below Lincoln...
Other experts disagreed. "I don't think any taxpayer could have gotten the deductions from the facts as they [the committee] found them," said Tax Lawyer Michael Fox of Chicago. New York Accounting Professor Abe Briloff found the pattern of errors in Nixon's returns "so egregious" that he believes that "they were not mere inadvertences but a carefully orchestrated, finely tuned program." San Francisco Attorney William Coblenz, who counts the Hearst family among his clients, believes that "the joint tax committee was, if anything, a little easy on President Nixon. Everyone looks for every reasonable deduction and there...
...Does he really think Tricky Dick can be compared with Honest Abe...
...ludicrous attempts to adopt the great ideas of modern society. "We tried Keynes, we tried Churchill, we tried Roosevelt, Lombardi, Eisenhower, of course. We even tried Kennedy. And the whole thing was ridiculous. But now we're wising up. Look who's been coming into power recently. Gerald Ford. Abe Beame in New York. And of course Malcolm Wilson up there in Albany, God bless him. Now we're stealing their plans. Exalt the ideas of midgets, if you know what I mean. You're bound to look good in comparison...
...under A.M. ("Abe") Rosenthal, 50, managing editor since 1969, the Times has loosened up and varied both its appearance and its coverage. Boxed and horizontal layouts now interrupt the long gray columns of old. Perhaps the single most important innovation is the Op-Ed page, an editorial feature that the Times did not invent; characteristically, though, its Op-Ed page, introduced in 1970, quickly became a model national forum of contrasting ideas and attitudes. The section is now edited by Charlotte Curtis, 45, who had previously transformed the Times's routine women's page into a sophisticated minidaily...