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...Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters in the Long Room of Abraham Martling's Nassau Street tavern...
...Appointment of the week: Abraham Nemeth, 36, to the mathematics department of the University of Detroit and to a personal victory in a long and painful fight. Nemeth, born blind, started out to be a psychologist. He earned an M.A. at Columbia University, switched to mathematics. Working as a clerk by day, he studied at Brooklyn College at night, eventually quit his job to study full time at Columbia for his doctorate. Meanwhile, he devised a simplified code to help other blind math students. Last week, having filled in as an instructor at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...
...congressional leaders on how he proposed to employ that philosophy at Geneva, and he promised them "frequent progress reports" through cables to Vice President Richard Nixon. Late into one night he sat with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the second-floor study of the White House, where Abraham Lincoln used to read the Bible every morning before breakfast, and finished battening down the U.S. position...
...Public Act No. 364 came across his desk for signing, Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff was reminded of the marriage vows and of the phrase, "in sickness and in health." The bill, as passed by the state legislature, would have permitted divorce from a spouse confined to a mental institution for a period of five years, even though there might be temporary interruptions in the confinement. Last week Democrat Ribicoff vetoed the bill...
...last week Boston Real Estate Tycoon Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend, 58, happily extended his right hand, firmly shook his own left hand. He thus Approved a deal to let his restaurant chain, Childs Co., buy three Sonnabend hotels -Manhattan's Plaza, Boston's Somerset and Cleveland's Cleveland-and make himself a potful of money...