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...closes with Lincoln's assassination. "It was the heaviest bullet, all things considered," writes Catton, "ever fired in America." Wherever possible Catton finds new perspectives along that blood-soaked two-year trail. Of Chickamauga, he writes: "The Union government sent 37,000 soldiers to Tennessee: the Confederacy sent Jefferson Davis. The contrast does not reflect different ideas about what was needed: it simply measures the extent of the resources at hand. Each government did the most it could...
...Lincoln agreed with Congress that "the Constitution could never, in all time, be changed in such a way as to permit interference with the institution of slavery." Four years later, he was pressing the 13th Amendment on the nation−and in Richmond, Jefferson Davis signed an order offering emancipation for any Negro slave who would bear arms for the South...
...Bernard Feinberg, 40, "you have got to have confidence and ego-and I have both." On a map of Chicago, he pinpointed neighborhoods with strong business potential but weak banking facilities, opened up a score of small-currency exchanges in those areas; as his business developed, he started the Jefferson State Bank (assets: $35 million), and became one of the youngest U.S. bank presidents. Another millionaire who has used money to make money is Phoenix Mortgage Banker A. B. ("Bob") Robbs Jr., 43, who went into New York cold in 1949, sold bankers on the wonders of Arizona, since then...
...such bleary-eyed outfits as the Filthy Speech Movement on the University of California's Berkeley campus, and the Sexual Freedom Movement at San Francisco State College. Just in case anyone wonders what the Sexual Freedom Movement might have to do with Viet Nam, Founder Jefferson Poland, 22, had an explanation: "People's lives are more important than sexual freedom...
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Dean Rusk, LL.D., Secretary of State. He takes a worthy place in that great succession of eminent Americans which began with Thomas Jefferson...