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...fierce com petition, business in the Valley of the Chips re mains something of a family affair. The corporate Abraham of the industry was Shockley Transistor Corp., founded in Palo Alto in 1956 by William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor and a Nobel laureate...
...DIED. Abraham Lincoln Wirin, 77, for four decades chief counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union who frequently took its cases before the Supreme Court; of a stroke; in Hollywood, Calif. Wirin fought for workers during the '30s, helped restore the rights and property of Japanese Americans following World War II, and battled the death penalty as unconstitutional. In the A.C.L.U.'s libertarian tradition, he also counseled fascists, Nazis, religious fanatics, and criminals, including Sirhan Sirhan. Said Wirin: "The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle as those of the most hated member...
...difficulty is that Trudeau and Lévesque differ totally on the means to prevent the assimilation of the French?a problem that has dogged Canada ever since British General James Wolfe ended French rule in Quebec with his victory over the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. For Trudeau, the safeguarding of the Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois...
Settlers at government-backed communities in the Sinai, like Yamit, are a mixed lot: many recent immigrants to Israel, some religious, some not. Pioneers living at Shiloh are more mystical and more determined. Says Abraham Strauss, a 20-year-old yeshiva student: "God gave us this land, not Menachem Begin or anyone else. And no one, including Begin, can take this gift away from...
Indeed, there is some evidence that blacks-who began this century as faithful adherents of the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln-are more ready than they have been in decades to be courted by the G.O.P. In Louisiana, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Robert Livingston, 34, won 30% of the black votes last September to become his district's first Republican Congressman since 1874. The first Republican mayor in the history of Charlotte, N.C., Kenneth Harris, won 41% of the black vote last year. In Virginia, Republican Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman received 25% of the black...