Word: lincoln
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When Abraham Lincoln established the U.S Department of Agriculture in 1862, he hoped it would be "the people's department." But has it turned out that way? Ralph Nader thinks not. In a 491-page report by one of his indefatigable groups of "Raiders," Nader charges that the department favors big "agribusiness" and fails to protect otherwise defenseless Americans from bad meat, contaminated poultry and toxic pesticides...
...order to give both sides ample room for maneuver and a chance to escape from the enterprise without embarrassment. For fear of possible leaks, Nixon and Kissinger did not work on the project in the Oval Office, where the President sees many visitors daily, but in the more secluded Lincoln Room. Though China experts were aware of a major policy review, they were kept in the dark. In fact, the community of Sinologists grumbled that Nixon was not properly following up his contacts with Peking...
...value and dismisses the dealers' grumping as plain envy. Sales of Franklin medals, he says, are already larger than the entire collectors' market for U.S. coins. He can also point to a growing number of other medal merchandisers that have entered the field, including Chicago's Lincoln Mint, New York's Medallic Art Co. and International Mint in Attleboro, Mass. It is still too early to tell whether such growth will eventually become new proof of the old adage that collecting can be profitable as well as fun. But the millions of stored-away medals...
JUDITH KIRSCH Lincoln...
...most persistent symbol of purity, selflessness and brotherly love in the history of Western man, they are afire with a Pentecostal passion for sharing their new vision with others. Fresh-faced, wide-eyed young girls and earnest young men badger businessmen and shoppers on Hollywood Boulevard, near the Lincoln Memorial, in Dallas, in Detroit and in Wichita, "witnessing" for Christ with breathless exhortations...