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They were crammed onto the ballots by men who could inscribe the Gettysburg Address on the head of a pin. They were couched in legal jargon that boggled the brain. U.S. voters struggled mightily to decipher and decide upon propositions to outlaw gambling, legalize liquor, install traffic lights, enlarge cities and amend state constitutions. In the hullabaloo over the 1962 election fights, the decisions on these propositions were often ignored. But in many states, what won may turn out to be even more important than...
Whatever else he did in his 88 flamboyant years, Daniel Edgar Sickles will be remembered for the way his troops were disposed on unprotected ground at the Battle of Gettysburg, and for the fact that he got shot. Civil War buffs still debate the merit of his deployment, but there is no question that the Confederate cannonball that smashed Sickles' right leg helped to make U.S. medical history. After the leg was amputated, a Union medic showed Sickles a year-old circular that directed medical officers "diligently to collect, and -o forward to the office of the Surgeon General...
...Four-Letter Word. Scranton thus got an invitation from Ike to talk politics at the former President's Gettysburg farm. Scranton knew what was in the wind. But by now he had fallen in love with his House job, had no ambitions about the governorship. Scranton listened politely to Ike, but kept shaking his head. Finally, just as Scranton was about to leave, Ike unleashed a cruncher. "Bill," he said, "this all comes down to a four-letter word-duty...
While a coach at Gettysburg College, John Yovicsin used a wide-open acrial game. But since moving to Harvard, he has gradually shifted to a ground-gaining game. During his first year with the Crimson, Yovicsin's quarterbacks compiled an average of 85.7 yards per game in the air. Last year the figure had dropped...
...Abraham Lincoln: In the American tradition, shining majestically, there are the Pilgrims and pioneers. Valley Forge and Gettysburg. the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. In it. looming large, are William Penn and Daniel Boone. Washington and Paine. Zenger and Marshall, Jefferson and Jackson. In it are faith and hope, tears and laughter. And high in our tradition stands Abraham Lincoln. Can he be explained in any other wav than that he was an instrument of divine destiny? History is but the enfoldment of a divine pattern ... If not this, it can only be materialistic drift. If there...