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Free & Easy. In any era, the black-bearded Rhineland revolutionary and the squeaky-voiced Whig editor would have made improbable bedfellows. The Tribune, as Hale explains, was a "great New York family newspaper dedicated to the support of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, temperance, dietary reform, Going West and ultimately, Abraham Lincoln." Marx, arrogant, embittered, exiled from his native Germany, was dedicated to the overthrow of 19th century capitalism...
This makes the second death for which the committee is responsible. Earlier, its equally unfounded charges caused the suicide of Abraham H. Feller, personal counsel of then U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie. For a subcommittee, this is a pretty impressive record...
...city until it was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century A.D., but Dr. Rice's interest goes back to 2000 B.C., when Harran was a famous center of worship of the long-bearded moon-god, Sin, giver of light and wisdom. Harran was also visited by Abraham on his way from Ur of the Chaldees to the land of Canaan...
Open Door. To his people, Ramon Magsaysay, 49, was a kind of combination Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson, with none of their faults: a war hero and a man of peace. He was the President who had opened Malacanan Palace to the people. Palace corridors and reception rooms, once the preserve of suave politicians and their richly gowned ladies, were thronged with peasants or plantation workers bringing their troubles. Magsaysay listened to them...
Then Sukarno got to the real hooker: his long-cherished plan to include Communists in both the Cabinet and the prospective National Council. To justify the Communist presence, he echoed one of his heroes, Abraham Lincoln, in a Biblical reference. "A house divided against itself cannot stand," he intoned. "How can we ignore a group which won 6,000,000 votes in the general election...