Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honored as if he had. Not only was his body flown to Washington on the plane that had carried the bodies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but it also lay in state beneath the dome of the Capitol Rotunda on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln and J.F.K...
...when those hill people in 1861 seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite the eye he had lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William...
Thailand, under a new, less antagonistic regime, welcomed the visit. The jovial Vietnamese were received at Bangkok airport with lilac-scented garlands called puang malais and elegantly chauffeured about town in capitalistic Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals. There was even a cocktail party for Trinh, to which delegations from foreign embassies were invited...
...grown to the point where about 20 million American "good buddies" have CB rigs in their cars or homes. Yet despite the boom in the industry, a lot of firms that tried to capitalize on the craze are going bust. A case in point: Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the largest U.S. makers of ham radio and CB gear. Burdened by $31 million in debts and a $24 million earnings loss in fiscal '77, Hy-Gain has filed for bankruptcy and told 1,000 employees at its plants in Lincoln and Puerto Rico...
Poor Nancy and Gregory Huber can't seem to get it right. Nearly 18 hours into New Year's Day 1977 they produced their first child, Stephanie Jean, in the Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln, Me. Having taken up residence in Brattleboro, Vt., the couple staged a repeat performance last week: 7-lb. 11-oz. Shaun came into the world at 1:43 a.m. on Jan. 1, Vermont's first baby of '78. This unlikely event gave Stephanie an unusual birthday present and her parents some local celebrity...