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...Lord, let him understand my Biblical references, and not say absentmindedly to Stockman, "Yes, the Reverend speaks words of wisdom--keep both Cain and Abel away from...
...crowded press conference in Washington last week, Brigadier General Richard Abel, public affairs director for the Air Force, announced a new set of restrictions on press coverage of manned space shuttle flights carrying purely military payloads. Mission 51-C is the first such flight; dozens more are scheduled in coming months and years. The aim of the new rules, declared General Abel, is to "deny our adversaries"-i.e., the Soviets-information about the shuttle launch and its payload. The effort to keep the lid on promptly provoked a rush of news leaks and reignited the simmering debate between the press...
...General Abel did tell reporters that space shuttle Discovery will take off on Mission 51-C some time between 1:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. E.S.T. on a day no sooner than Jan. 23. But he refused to say what would be on board or how long the mission would last. He promised that touchdown will be announced 16 hours in advance, and that the press would be informed about any emergencies. Far more ominous was his warning that any "speculation" by the press about the mission and its payload could set off an investigation for breach of national...
...implied article of faith in Abel's reminiscences is that with the exception of Manhattan island, real life was best lived overseas. During the mid-'30s, one could battle for the moral high ground in the Spanish Civil War. After 1945 there was Paris, where one could mix with American writers, painters, musicians and, if Lionel Abel, lunch with the reigning philosopher of the left, Jean-Paul Sartre...
...Margin of Hope, Howe describes Abel as "a sort of freelance guerrilla ready to take on all comers." The Intellectual Follies is not as combative as this statement leads one to expect. The narrative adheres loosely to a chronology. Abel, son of a Niagara Falls rabbi, goes to Greenwich Village in 1929 to begin his literary venture. The Depression finds him there, receiving a weekly check from a federally sponsored writers' program. Many of the artists and litterateurs of the period had little affection for the hand that fed them; Abel notes with a twinkle that he stayed home...