Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take Mickey Feldstein's Foolproof Pawnshop Index. Feldstein keeps a close watch on the percentage of pawned items that are eventually redeemed at his Lincoln Loan Bank & Jewelers in Chicago. In 1966, when the economy was throbbing, Feldstein's redemption rate was 90%. In December of 1970, the Commerce Department's average of twelve leading indicators was pointing up unmistakably, signaling a big rebound in business. Feldstein knew better; his redemption rate the month before was only 60%, and the Commerce Department rebound never came. Today Feldstein sees good times ahead. His redemption rate is a brisk...
MUSKIE. Clearly most stunned by the results was Edmund Muskie-and all of the professionals in press and politics who had seen him as almost a cinch for the nomination only two short weeks before. He had been the front runner, the sincere, often eloquent Abe Lincoln with the rockbound Maine integrity -who contrasted so sharply with the expedient, unlovable Richard Nixon. The image campaign urged everyone to "trust Muskie." But when he turned weepy and peevish and no one could figure precisely what to trust him on, that image turned as fuzzy as Lincoln's beard. By ignoring...
...recent weeks other interested parties have been asking the same question: Who is Herb Kalmbach? His name has figured prominently in stories about the exclusive Lincoln Club of Orange County, a group of millionaire businessmen who like to boast that without their munificent fund-raising efforts, Nixon would not be President. According to insiders, the man in charge of funneling funds into G.O.P. coffers is one Herbert W. Kalmbach. Last week potential backers of the Republican Convention in San Diego received copies of a letter signed by John Keeney, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's fraud division. While...
...Manhattan, the Chinese last week settled for less elegant surroundings to house their United Nations delegation. They bought a ten-story motel on West 66th Street, in an unfashionable but gradually improving area near Lincoln Center...
...sizable segment of that after-hours world consists of drinking, whoring, gambling and fighting. Bullins would probably get frothing mad at any white (playwright or not) who said some of the things that he says about blacks. He disowns the Lincoln Center production of The Duplex as a "coon show," though nothing in the script indicates that the spirit of the play has been violated. As a slice-of-life playwright, Bullins carves out zesty evocations of drunken parties, card-playing cronies, the sudden sensual thrust and parry of the sexes. When he can carve out the palpitating hearts...