Word: gifts
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Last spring a venerable steam locomotive pulling 25 red, white and blue cars chugged out of Wilmington, Del., on a 17,000-mile, two-year Bicentennial tour of the U.S. It was the American Freedom Train, a private, nonprofit project financed through $5 million in gifts from five U.S. corporations and billed as "a birthday gift to the American people." The train carried a somewhat indiscriminate array of American artifacts: George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the agreement for the Louisiana Purchase, Will Rogers' lariat, Judy Garland's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Kareem...
...Ford took office, the entire family has been together in the White House only once-last month, when the President insisted on a reunion. On that occasion the picture was taken that appears on TIME's cover; the First Lady presented it to her husband as a birthday gift. Yet as far-flung as the Ford children are, the family's solidarity remains its chief feature, along with a freewheeling independence of mind that all the Fords-including the President -nurture and relish...
Coleman's remarks, Pettigrew said, were a "gift from God" for legislators and people who would like to give up on school desegregation...
Australian Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam presented the gift July 4 as part of what he called Australia's role in celebrating the United States Bicentennial...
Although not all the details about the gift are complete. Whitlam said the professorship, to be called the Australian Bicentennial Chair, will be "at research level and form a center for Australian Studies by other universities...