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...DIED. Abram N. Spanel, 83, founder in 1932 and chairman from 1949 to 1975 of the International Latex (now Playtex) Corp., the bra and girdle maker, who was also a notable philanthropist, mostly to medical research, and a gifted inventor who held more than 2,000 patents; of congestive heart failure; in Princeton, N.J. Born in Russia and reared in Paris until at ten he moved to the U.S., Spanel was probably best known to the public for his habit of regularly buying newspaper space, at a cost of millions over four decades, to promote his beliefs, notably world unity...
...There is no question that we face rationing," says Morris Abram, the New York attorney who served from 1979 to 1983 as chairman of the President's commission on medical ethics. But Gregory Pence, who teaches ethics at the University of Alabama Medical School, offers a warning: "Medical costs are uncontrollable because we lack moral 'agreement about how to deny medical services. Deciding how to say 'no,' and to say it with honesty and integrity, is perhaps the most profound, most difficult moral question our society will face in coming years. But face it we must, for the alternative...
Socialist Economics a search committee is being formed to replace Baker Professor of Economics Abram Bergson who retired this year...
Harvard Law Professor Abram Chayes, a leading member of Nicaragua's legal team, argues that America's recognition of compulsory jurisdiction requires that the U.S. give six months' notice before it can deny jurisdiction to the court. Says Chayes, who formulated the legal defense for the Kennedy Administration's blockade of Cuba in 1962: "You can't withdraw when the other fellow sues...
...Abram Bergson, Professor of Economics, turns 70 years old this spring, reaching what he calls "the pleasant age of retirement." He expects successors to be found in his fields of expertise, which include comparative systems and socialist economics...