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...surfaced, part of a $1.4 million federal grant for a University of Massachusetts-sponsored teacher-training program in Brooklyn seems to have been spent on "academic retreats" in Montreal hotels. Two checks were made out to "consultants" who apparently did not exist. The checks had been cashed by Cleo Abraham, an assistant professor, who subsequently handed in his resignation...
There was one really incredible moment at the Politics of Conspiracy Conference held at Boston University last month. The capacity crowd in the Morse Auditorium was watching the Zapruder film--spectator Abraham Zapruder's home movie of President Kennedy's motorcade through Dallas on November 22, 1963--hot a new experience for most of the conspiracy buffs in the audience...
...over the once bloody, somehow romantic battlegrounds of history. Buffs dragged their children in Yankee or Rebel caps over the cemetery farm land of Gettysburg, fast growing commercial. Book clubs offered multivolume histories such as Allan Kevins' The Ordeal of the Union and Carl Sandburg's grandiloquent Abraham Lincoln. Catton, with his 13 volumes, became the distinguished popularizer of the Civil War, his work deeply researched and written with a vivid immediacy...
...time 15 eagles were perched in the Oval Office. Eagles on the rug, on the flagpoles, on the walls. Their population and prominence have been considerably reduced. The pervasive influence in the decor now is Abraham Lincoln. There is a statuette of young Abe standing serenely on a pedestal against the wall. Looking out over the office from the bookshelves is a bust of Lincoln sculpted by Leonard Volk in about 1880. This is the creased and concerned President who held the nation together. In the hall just outside the office is a larger bust of Lincoln, a melancholy visage...
...Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, were intended to implement a declaration by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 which, among other things, had declared that all Jews could not be blamed for the death of Jesus. That document, for which Jews like the late Theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel had long labored, also called for building positive relations between the two faiths...