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Despite all the pressures on politicians now, there was still a kind of unity, Nixon said. It had always been that way, even in the Civil War. And that reminded him of Abraham Lincoln's problems with favor seekers. "Lincoln was always saying yes when he meant no, and he had to apologize to his Cabinet," Nixon told the group. "Lincoln said that if he had been a woman he would have been in trouble. Then Lincoln paused and said, 'My ugliness would have saved me.' " Nixon said that as he had walked through the group, four...
Died. Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 85, a pioneer in microbiology who coined the term "antibiotic" in 1941 and two years later isolated streptomycin, the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. The Ukrainian-born scientist, who came to America in 1910, headed the Rutgers team that spent four years sifting through 100,000 different microbes to find streptomycin; in 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements in medicine...
...Abraham Lincoln. D. W. Griffith, acknowledged master of the silent screen and father of the American film industry, made his sound film debut with an account of Lincoln's life. The film moves through the Lincoln legend in episodes, with Walter Huston portraying the railsplitter President in a very convincing fashion. Channel...
...YORK--Frankie "the Rabbit" Torres was screaming mad last Tuesday night following Herman Badillo's 3-2 loss to Abraham Became in New York City's run-off mayoral primary...
...purveyor of harmony in a region of no war, no peace is Iranian-born Abraham ("Abie") Nathan, a former Israeli air force pilot. After making a financial killing with an American-style restaurant in Tel Aviv, in the late 1960s Nathan developed an insatiable hunger for peace. Three times he flew to Egypt, unsuccessfully trying for interviews with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Undeterred, he circled the globe promoting peace...