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PROBABLY THE MAIN contenders for the "second toughest job in America" are Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi and Comptroller Abe Beame. The Democratic organization in the city would like to recycle Beame, who lost narrowly to Lindsay in 1965, but there are real questions whether the diminutive 5'2" Beame can hold the Jewish vote. As Bronx Democratic leader Pat Cunningham told a Harvard professor last week. "Let's face it. Beame's big problem is that he's mediocre...
...effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly of the unsettling idea that Queen Victoria was really Helen Hayes and the Great Emancipator was really Ray mond Massey. If anyone manages to remember The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, it will be with the conviction that Mary Todd Lincoln was really Julie Harris...
LIFE's final years were journalistically spectacular. One prime example: an investigative series on Abe Fortas resulted in his withdrawal from the Supreme Court. First and last, science enjoyed LIFE's most extensive and memorable coverage, from the birth of that controversial baby to Lennart Nilsson's incredible photography (1965) of a life before birth. Ironically it was scientific explorations that helped to close LIFE. For once a satellite flew, pictures could be swiftly bounced from one part of the world to another. Ten days to bring back the coronation in color? Ten nanoseconds for the next...
...influential policy-making Washington lawyers who work outside of the public view to manipulate the Washington bureaucracy in favor of their clients, a large portion of which are corporations. Their ranks include Clark Clifford, perhaps the wealthiest and most sought after Washington Lawyer, and another blue-chip barrister. Abe Fortas, whose connections with Lyndon Johnson reaped substantial rewards for several corporate clients...
...ability to juggle the controls of governmental regulation. In early 1964, when the Public Health Service issued its famed report on the causal connection between smoking and bad health, the FTC proposed rules requiring that tobacco companies warnings both on cigarette packages and in advertising. Under the direction of Abe Fortas, who represented Phillip Morris, Washington Lawyers for the big tobacco companies formed a solid coalition to help the tobacco lobby. Fortas's strategy for the Superlawyers was threefold: 1) Get the issue away from the FTC and into Congress, where the industry has more influence. 2) Placate the public...