Word: lincoln
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Sophoulis, who wants to fight Greece's Communists without establishing a dictatorship, promptly promised an amnesty for guerrillas and political prisoners, thousands of whom are not Communists. Sophoulis, however, is 86; he can remember the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Handicapped by his age and a record of political vacillation, Sophoulis inherited a state of civil war and a wrecked national economy. He did not look like a man who could steer Greece to peace and safety; but Washington had no better ideas, perhaps because Greece had no better politicians...
...compound the trouble, Washington heard rumbles of a misunderstanding between U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight P. Griswold, administrator of the aid program in Athens, over U.S. methods in Greece. Off to Athens in a hurry went the State Department's able, vigorous Loy Henderson, chief of the Near Eastern and African Affairs office...
...Black Cats. Six out of ten U.S. adults drink; the same number smoke. One-half the population thinks Hitler is still alive. Two out of three believe Abraham Lincoln was greater than George Washington. The five living humans most admired by Americans are: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower,*Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall...
...Lincoln, Neb., a state commission was all set to unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...
...youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...