Word: lincoln
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...Nixon too. Before settling into San Clemente for a rest, he spent the rest of the week barnstorming the U.S. with the fervor of a newly sawdusted evangelist. He had the Knights of Columbus standing on their chairs to applaud him in New York. In Springfield, Ill., Nixon invoked "Lincoln's legacy." America, said the President, needs sacrifice and competition: "We can at this point in our history nobly save, or meanly lose, man's last best hope." Nixon capped his week with a gesture of reconciliation toward the nation most aggrieved by his recent acts. He revealed that...
...GEORGE LINCOLN, 64, a retired Army brigadier general, will disseminate the policy guidelines framed by the Cost of Living Council. He will also monitor the questions and complaints that flow in, administer the information and investigative network, which now includes the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Agriculture as well as the Office of Emergency Preparedness...
White-haired and scholarly, Lincoln spent 15 years as a professor and head of the social sciences department at West Point before becoming director of the OEP in the Nixon Administration's first year. His work at OEP, notably in the wake of Hurricane Camille two years ago, gained him a reputation as an able administrator. But as director of the President's Oil Policy Committee, he has been criticized by some as too sympathetic to the oil industry...
Shirtsleeves Boss. In 1968, Lincoln-Mercury's management was given fresh strength with the appointment of Marketing Specialist Matthew McLaughlin as division chief. Among other things, he supervised new styling changes before moving to a higher job. The present general manager, Ben Bidwell, 43, took the post 16 months ago and has proved to be an equally forceful executive. A dark, quick-smiling man who started as a Ford salesman in Boston in 1953, Bidwell usually works in shirtsleeves, tie at half mast. He played baseball at the Babson Institute of Business Administration, still looks like an athlete...
...Bidwell's biggest victories has been to lift the spirit of his dealers. A Lincoln-Mercury dealer who sells one Mark III can now earn about as much money as a Ford dealer makes on twelve Pintos. Not surprisingly, though the number of U.S. auto dealerships is diminishing, Lincoln-Mercury's organization is growing. Bidwell himself signed up 47 new dealers in the past year or so. Says he: "You can't bull the public about cars. All the pizazz in the world can't hide an ineffective dealer organization or a poor product." Bidwell obviously...