Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over 200 guests, including Jacqueline Onassis and Artists Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler. Architect I.M. Pei, creator of it all, looked on beaming. "The best thing is to see how it looks with people in it," he said, adding, "I didn't want it to be a Lincoln Memorial." Not to worry. Before the week was out, the President himself had stopped by to open Pei's pride to the public. The building, said Carter, "is worthy of thousands of years of artistic creation...
Knowing that Michigan law forbids the sale of babies, Noel Keane, the Dearborn attorney who placed the ad for the childless couple, checked with Wayne County juvenile court for an informal opinion. Judge James Lincoln said yes, a volunteer could legally bear a child for the couple to adopt, but no, the law did not allow the payment of fees to the mother for the service. Suddenly the reservoir of surrogates dried up. Explains Keane: "We don't have any of them now. As it turns out, all of them were interested in money...
...nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example, has just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest...
Schwartz has also found in the President's own words what he believes to be good evidence that before Lincoln was shot he was "in a state of early congestive heart failure"-brought on by his aortic condition. About seven weeks before Lincoln's assassination, for example, he told his friend Joshua Speed: "My feet and hands of late seem to be always cold, and I ought perhaps to be in bed." Though he was only 56 in 1865, Abe was also easily fatigued toward the end. "There is only one word that can express my condition...
Schwartz, who teaches medicine at the University of Southern California, concedes that his 20-year study is an "obsession." When his five children visited Disneyland with him, he recalls, he used to have Lincoln-head pennies in his pocket; they would be awarded to the first child who could identify "a Marfan" in the crowd. His office is cluttered with busts of Lincoln. In 1976 he abandoned private practice and joined the geriatric department of a state mental hospital. Reason: so that he could have nights and weekends free to search Lincoln literature for more clues to Marfan...