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...Federal Power Commission have claimed the plant would kill 3 per cent of the striped bass hatch yearly; the AEC study, released this week by Sen. Abraham S. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) estimates a 25 per cent to 75 per cent annual kill...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: Storm Passes Over Mass Hall | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

Wilson also attributed Abraham Beame's victory in New York to a rejection of what he called "Lindsayism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Role of Watergate in Urban Elections Called Negligible by Political Analysts | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Democrat Abraham Beame decisively won the four-way New York mayoralty race with more than 50 per cent of the vote. In Detroit, black State Rep. Coleman A. Young squeezed past an ex-police commissioner in a campaign that centered on the law-and-order issue. In Cleveland, the Republican Party held onto its mayor after a bizarre sequence of pre-election events concerning the Democratic candidate. In Minneapolis, the liberal Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate upset the city's two-term conservative Republican incumbent...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Unclear National Returns | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...Democrat Abraham D. Beame decisively won the four-way New York mayorality race last night with over 50 per cent of the votes. A light turnout at the polls was the anti-climax to a hard-fought campaign that began last January with a field of ten candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Weather and Few Upsets Mark State and Local Races Throughout the United States | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

Both peoples, their scriptures tell them, are the children of that primeval patriarch Abraham: the Arabs the offspring of his son Ishmael, the Jews of his son Isaac. Both hammered out their visions of a single God in the forge of the desert, and both fought to win a stronghold for those visions against the tribes of idolaters then around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Abraham's Children | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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