Word: lincoln
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...Congress in 1948, but left after three terms when he became disheartened by his relative lack of influence. He also wanted to make some money. He returned to Texas in 1954, entered the insurance business, and eventually merged his small-volume company with a prospering insurance firm in Lincoln, Neb. The merged outfit grew to become a major holding company with interests ranging from funeral homes to savings and loans, and by 1971 Bentsen had accumulated a personal fortune of $2.3 million. As a seasoned manager, he was asked to sit on the boards of Lockheed, Continental Oil and other...
...great weekend for Radcliffe's squash and fencing squads. Betty Lincoln's racquetwomen dropped a doubleheader to Wellesley and Yale, while the fencing team saw two of its three entrants in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Fencing championships drop out in the first round...
...squash team lost to Yale 0-7, and Wellesley, 3-4, last Saturday, but coach Lincoln is pleased that her third-year squad has shown tremendous improvement over last season. "We were competitive with Yale this year." Lincoln said of Saturday's meet, in which several of the racquetwomen took their powerful Eli opponents to the wire before losing. "Last year it was literally no contest...
...Lincoln-Washington birthday recess is a congressional institution, but last week Congressmen back home for the ten-day holiday got an earful, and their ears were burning. What in the world were they doing at home, their constituents wanted to know, when the economy needed their full attention? "There is a real irritation around here that Congress recessed," reports New York Republican Peter Peyser. "People have been coming up to me and saying, 'Why aren't you down there doing something about all this?' " An aggrieved constituent told Virginia Republican Caldwell Butler: "Any policy is better than...
Furthermore, although Muskie's crying incident is considered less disastrous in light of other actions by recent Presidents (besides, we can be reminded. Lincoln used to cry), another such blunder would be fatal, Still, as Goodwin pointed out, it's unlikely Muskie would commit the same mistakes the second time around. "He's probably learned something. He wouldn't cry this time. He could get by with some amphetamines in 1976 like Humphrey...