Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down at the ranch of his treasured Treasury Secretary, John Connally. For the President even to consider such an odyssey is firm reinforcement of Connally's towering stature in Washington. Indeed, it was Connally who carried the President's wreath of carnations and cornflowers to the Abraham Lincoln catafalque on which J. Edgar Hoover lay in state last week. That and the splashy Texas party left no doubt as to where nominal Democrat Connally stands in Nixon's affections...
This precocious consumerism began after a group of Lincoln School teachers decided to make the curriculum more, well, relevant by starting lessons in comparative shopping. They found that the children caught on quickly. Now Lincoln has a newspaper called the Nader News, which features sulfurous exposés like the tale about the school store, where Mrs. Betty Davis tried to beat Susan Davidson out of a penny on her purchase of a paste brush. (Susan...
Even outside companies have been caught out by Lincoln's Raiders. Best Foods received a letter from Sixth Grader Brian Houser noting that "on the label of a jar of Skippy dry-roasted mixed nuts I noticed that cashews are listed first. But I found more peanuts. Our committee believes that you should correct the label." (The company replied that Brian's jar was "a poor representative of this line" and enclosed a coupon for another.) Next, some candy companies may have to recall their Euclid shipments because their product does not maintain the proper heft for Saturday...
...methods were devious, ruthless f and thoroughly effective. Educated in § Roman Catholic missions and at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Nkrumah settled in London in the 1940s, em- braced Communism and developed skills as an orator, agitator and politician. By 1947 he was ready to apply his experience to Africa's Gold Coast, then a British colony. There he formed his own Convention People's Party to press for independence, and even before winning that goal was virtually deified by the people. Jailed by the British for sedition, he controlled his party by messages smuggled...
...stage, Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, with Claire Bloom as Mary and Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth, has just finished a Broadway run and is scheduled to go on tour in the fall. Also in New York, a musical called Elizabeth I had a short run, and at Lincoln Center there was an adaptation of Schiller's Maria Stuart-not to mention a production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the New York City Opera...