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...addition, his economic stimulus program made available $8 billion, enabling cities and towns to hire some 725,000 people who otherwise could not find jobs, and $4 billion for public works in areas with high unemployment. New York City, for instance, received $800 million from these programs, allowing Mayor Abraham Beame to draw up a balanced budget for this year, though the city is still financially strapped. Said Beame of Carter's first ten months: "It was a good beginning. I'm encouraged...
This historical breakthrough hit home last week when a handsome new book, The Presidents, by the National Park Service, was mailed around town. George, John, Thomas, Andrew, William, Millard, Abraham, Chester, Warren, Franklin and all those others march formally out of history. There are other Jameses too, but with last names like Madison, Monroe and Polk. At the end is No. 39: Jimmy...
...this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One trillion.) Nero Wolfe's actual weight? (One-seventh of a ton.) Which British poet laureate and which U.S. President wrote murder stories? (C. Day Lewis and Abraham Lincoln.) With 150 contributions about crime writers, cops, critics, scientists, ex-spies, a stoolie, a butler who didn't do it and many others, Winn's concordance is elegant, entertaining and encyclopedic...
...Macy's was on every out-of-towner's must-see list (along with the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building), but it slipped badly in the early 1970s. It was easily overtaken by the glitter and sharp merchandising of trendy Bloomingdale's; Korvettes, Abraham & Straus and Alexander's, which cater to the traditional Macy's budget-type customer, pulled ahead with jazzy promotions. Macy's sales limped along and Wall Street analysts believe the store actually lost money in some years. It did not share in the growth of parent...
Sunday, as Sadat later reminded his Knesset listeners, was 'Id al-Adh?, an Islamic holy day that commemorates the willingness of Abraham, the patriarch and prophet revered by Jews and Muslims alike, to sacrifice his son. The visiting President began the day with prayer at Al Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem, the third holiest spot in Islam. Then as a gesture to Egypt's large Coptic minority, he stopped at the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which in Christian tradition sanctifies the spot where Jesus rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial...