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Does that sound silly? It isn't, argues A. (for Abraham) A. (for Abby) Imberman, a Chicago public-relations man, in the January issue of the Harvard Business Review. Imberman, who has had several unions as clients, maintains that labor leaders' more violent anti-company feelings are often prompted by the failure of their communities to accept them and their families socially...
...Abraham Lincoln once defined the proper length for a man's legs: long enough to reach the ground. Nobody has yet found such a simple way to measure the proper size for U.S. corporations. After five decades of sporadic U.S. trustbusting, the problem was still unsolved: Who could fix the boundaries beyond which corporate growth ceased to be healthy and became malignant...
...Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Ebe, who was six and reading Shakespeare. Twenty-nine years later (1837) when future brother-in-law Nathaniel published his Twice-Told Tales, Liz sang his praises so busily that Hawthorne got tired of her. Once during the Civil War when Liz decided that Abraham Lincoln was running the war badly, she rushed off to Washington to tell him so. Satisfied that Mr. Lincoln was really the man for the job, she directed her energies into good works for distressed Negro children. At 66, Spinster Liz started the nation's first public kindergarten...
...phone in that period. Agent James J. Lynch disclosed that he had spent six months-five days a week,' eight hours a day-glued to Gubichev's phone and had heard only five conversations, some involving Gubichev's wife. Did she speak English or Russian? asked Abraham Pomerantz, Gubichev's skillful attorney. Agent Lynch said he could not recall. A Russian-speaking FBI agent said that he tapped Gubichev's phone for eight months without knowing that it was being tapped at the same time by another FBI Russian-speaking monitor in another place...
...years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that the FBI had illegally tapped telephones and intercepted mail to get its evidence...