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...familiar ploy, perhaps, but the culprit was none other than Honest Abe Lincoln, who served one term in the House from 1847 to 1849. And he got away with it. The House Committee on Mileage specified that Congressmen could return home by "the most usual route," thus allowing Lincoln to claim he took the long way home...
...High Commissioner for Refugees, Denmark's Poul Hartling, received a pledge from the participating nations that they would take in 250,000 refugees this year. The promises of help, in fact, got under way before the conference. Canada announced earlier in the week that it would accept 50,000 refugees by the end of 1980, Britain that it would absorb 10,000 from overcrowded Hong Kong. The U.S. had already increased its quota from 7,000 to 14,000 a month...
...King Rama IX. A talented jazz saxophonist who was born in Cambridge, Mass. (where his father was a medical student), the shy monarch travels constantly throughout the country. He personally hands out diplomas to all graduates of state universities and military colleges. That is no mean chore: 20,000 got their degrees in Bangkok alone last year...
...President got off to a promising start. In a blizzard of speeches and briefings early last week, he described plans to spend a breathtaking $141 billion over the next decade ("one of the biggest figures you ever heard ... the unparalleled peacetime commitment"). The aim is to cut U.S. oil imports in half, and thus prevent the nation's economy from remaining in bondage to the price and production whims of OPEC. For about 40 hours, beginning with his TV talk Sunday night, Carter was winning popular and political support for this economic moon shot. On Monday, in tub-thumping...
...modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard of the Bolshevik Revolution, was no less attentive to his mistress Lili Brik, though his poems were scarcely as complimentary as Aragon's. Lili was Elsa's older sister, and the series of stunning lyrics that Mayakovsky dedicated to her in the 1910s and 1920s agonized over her indifference...