Word: lincoln
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Also starting with Miller and Winn will be Mark Taylor. Key backups for this group are letterman Tom Lincoln at full back and sophomores Larry Schember and Nick Wilce at halfback...
Bear Hug. Back in Washington, Betty Ford got the news of the assassination attempt while sitting at the desk in her study, a small, cozy room with a sweeping view of the monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Mrs. Ford had just begun a phone conversation when the call was interrupted: on the line was Richard Keiser, the head of the President's Secret Service detail. Right off, knowing how she would react to his abrupt intrusion, Keiser assured Betty Ford that her husband was all right. Then he told her what had happened. Since moving into the White...
What if Aaron Burr had been a bad shot? What if Lincoln had not attended Our American Cousin? Such questions, history's most tantalizing and ironic, are also its most academic and trivial−except in some extraordinary instances. One such instance is now coming to light. The FBI is investigating the previously unrevealed fact that a few days before President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance...
...blurring of sex roles, perhaps the most obvious aspect of the male gay culture is its promiscuity. Some men have quick, anonymous and furtive sex in the men's rooms of public parks, subway stations or college buildings. Others seek nightly for partners in established pickup areas. In Lincoln, Neb., they cruise near the Governor's mansion; in Arlington, Va., near the Iwo Jima memorial. In the Fens and "the Block," in Boston's Back Bay, homosexuals run the risk of getting badly beaten and even killed by roaming gangs who are out to get them. Most...
Anyone who can be compared to both Abraham Lincoln and Will Rogers may be considered a serious candidate for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, 53, a lanky, breezy Westerner, is not reluctant to press the comparisons. As a relatively obscure Representative from Arizona, he knows that his chief asset is going to be the impression he makes. With considerable candor, a skill at raillery and a gift for not taking himself too seriously, he makes friends fast-if not ardent converts to his presidential quest...