Word: lincoln
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RICHARD NIXON will be the smiling star in the most satisfying event in his long political career, but Washington itself will be the centerpiece of the Inaugural weekend. The two-mile-long mall from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill has been cleared of temporary buildings for the first time in 50 years. The bureaucratic mastodons along Constitution Avenue and the restored old homes around Lafayette Square stand as handsome pieces of scenery in the quadrennial drama. Washington has never been more impressive...
...great debates over slavery that preceded the Civil War were staged in the Senate rather than the House, which was fragmented over the issue. Yet even Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated slaves by fiat, sometimes deferred to Capitol Hill. Said he: "Congress should originate, as well as perfect, its measures without external bias...
...celebration is part of an eleven-day "Fanfare for Europe" planned by the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath, at a cost of $825,000. Among its flourishes will be a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall, a "Poets of Europe" reading at Lincoln's Inn, and a soccer match between all-star teams from the old Common Market Six, and the three new members: Britain, Ireland and Denmark...
Died. Horace Mann Bond, 68, energetic Southern educator and father of Georgia State Representative Julian Bond; after a long illness; in Atlanta. The first black president of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Bond was an early critic of IQ tests, which he regarded as culturally biased in favor of affluent whites. An authority on Negro writing and history, he provided much of the research used by N.A.A.C.P. lawyers during the school desegregation cases...
...Harris mannerisms have not palled on you, attend and worship. After her own fashion, she is superb. She does a highly affecting monologue on the ghastly, ghostly ordeal of Mary Lincoln's life abroad. She watches her son Tad dying and dies herself very prettily...