Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M.I.T. with its I-Labs and Lincoln Labs is probably the most important military research center in the U.S.," Melman said. "But the people at M.I.T. have not shown signs of taking any action about weapons research...
...invitations, the most presents-and the most votes in the inevitable year-end polls. In one of the more obscure surveys, U.S. newspaper editors picked the man who they thought was the most admired in history. The winner was Jesus Christ (280 votes). Runners-up: Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated...
...trip to India in 1964, Pope Paul VI gave her his white Lincoln Continental, which she raffled off to help the poor. In 1968. Paul called her from India to found a home for the poor, staffed mostly by Indian nuns, in Rome itself. Last week the Pontiff named Albanian-born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu -Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charity-the first winner of the $25,000 John XXIII Peace Prize...
Died. Max Lincoln Schuster, 73, co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a major figure on the American literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World...
...Kenneth Koch. "How about a Christmas poem today?" He suggests all sorts of ideas: "Like what would the ocean do if it really cared about Christmas? Or the eagles, sparrows and robins-what would they do? The apes in in Africa, would they swing from the trees? Or Abraham Lincoln, would he shave his beard? The rain? The sun? And the people in Puerto Rico, or China...