Word: lincoln
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...more to muse on than most: Contralto Marian Anderson. In 1939, she had been refused permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing in Constitution Hall because she is black. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the D.A.R., and Anderson sang instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Last week, Miss Anderson sat in the presidential...
Ironically, the one institutional question left unanswered by opening night was how the opera house sounded. As proved by the $3,000,000 already spent to improve Philharmonic Hall at New York City's Lincoln Center, acoustics can involve the pocketbook as much as the ear. Mass proved nothing about the opera house, since Bernstein relied heavily on amplification-body mikes for most of the soloists, hand mikes for the rock singer, floor mikes to pick up the dialogue. But as the week rolled on, it became apparent that the Kennedy Center sounded infinitely better than it looked...
...prison program's main booster is Gary Hill, 31, a Lincoln, Neb., metals-company executive, who took command five years ago, after the first prison chapter was established in West Virginia in 1962. Hill got hooked on the concept after he noticed that ex-convicts, long hired for his family business, made exceptionally good workers. He organized a Jaycee prison chapter and set up a referral service for convicts that now spans the country and guarantees ex-cons assistance with jobs, housing and counseling. Says Hill: "The Jaycees allow inmates, who historically have had all their individuality taken away...
...feels to live in a constrained economy. Already well over half a million Americans have called in questions about their personal or business financial problems to federal centers, where harried officials ruled on?or guessedat?the answers as best they could. In Washington, reported Director George A. Lincoln of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, scores of lobbyists began seeking favored treatment for their business clients. In answer to a private query, Los Angeles OEP Supervisor Pat Hogan ruled that a divorcee who had served her former husband with papers demanding an increase in alimony could not collect it during...
...director, Brigadier General George Lincoln, was on his ranch near Denver when he got the White House call to action. He phoned his eight regional directors and sent them scurrying. "Get a bunch of borrowed people," he advised. "We don't want to pay them." The morning after the President's announcement, Lincoln's men set up improvised regional offices in ten major cities. In the Midwest, the branch moved from Battle Creek, Mich., to Chicago. In Georgia, OEP-ers transferred from Thomasville to Atlanta, where they found room in an insurance office sandwiched between two topless...