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HOWARD E. ABRAHAM General Dynamics San Diego
...solid but unexceptional reputation, staking out a claim to progressive principles. He was the only New York district attorney to oppose capital punishment. Last year he wanted to run for mayor but had to settle for the city council presidency nomination. The machine's candidate for mayor, Abraham Beame, lost to Republican John Lindsay, but O'Connor's vote topped Lindsay's by 210,000. The council presidency is a post of little power or responsibility, and O'Connor has had ample time to pursue the governorship...
...safety furor, and other automakers will probably follow suit. Ford's is hardly a crash program-the new noses will go on various models when they are due for major restyling, and the changeover will not be complete until the 1971 models come out. But even Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, the auto industry's toughest critic in Congress, saw the move as a sign of Detroit's growing recognition that "safety entails more than add-on features...
...Institute, which has no formal ties to nearby Princeton University, lives mainly off the income from a $19 million endowment given to it by New Jersey Department Store Owner Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld. They did so at the suggestion of Medical Education Reformer Abraham Flexner, the Institute's first director, who convinced them of "the usefulness of useless knowledge." It now has 23 permanent "professors," each of whom was selected by the vote of the other professors and who get about $24,000 for a seven-month academic year. In addition there are 100 "members...
Writing in 1924, Abraham Flexner in his book Medical Education, commented on the experience of most American medical students as follows: "They were grouped in fixed classes, the personnel of which was practically unchanged, except for outright losses due to failure, from year to year; they followed in fixed order, day by day, the same subjects, for the same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual...