Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their first summit in Moscow in 1972, President Nixon gave Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev a Cadillac. At their second meeting last year in Washington, Nixon gave him a Lincoln Continental. Last week, back in Moscow for the third summit in as many years, Nixon brought with him a sporty Chevrolet Monte Carlo for the Soviet Union's foremost automobile enthusiast. In a curious sense, the gift of the cheaper auto,* which Brezhnev had specifically requested after reading that it was Motor Trend magazine's "car of the year," was an appropriate symbol of the more relaxed relations...
...newsmen ever forgot their power to campaign for causes. That power has not always been used wisely or in the public interest. Nor has it been used consistently. Investigative journalism, for instance, has run in cycles, flourishing most conspicuously in the first decade of this century, when muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell raged against civic corruption, social injustice and industrial abuses. There was some revival in the 1920s, during Teapot Dome and Prohibition, and again, with different stresses, during the Depression. World War II and the cold war created a sense of common goals...
...captains are: Dan Williams of Milton, baseball; Blair Brooks of Weston, heavyweight crew; Todd Howard of Clarence, N.Y., lightweight crew; Steve McConnell of Winchester and Tom Yellin of Memphis, Tenn., golf; Jim Quinn and Leroy Thompson of Baltimore, Md., lacrosse; John Ingard of Lincoln, tennis; and Blayne Heckel of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Steve Niemi of Pullman, Wash., track and field...
...that 200 years of growth have made this impossible. Men of modern power perhaps can be nothing else, so exigent and awesome are the demands upon them. Yet our best Presidents have clung to small pleasures that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions...
...200th birthday of the United States is still two years away, but already television networks are starting to celebrate. Among the shows planned for the fall are NBC's series based on Carl Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, and another by the Public Broadcasting System on the Adams family from 1750 to 1900. CBS, however, has decided to go to extremes with the longest-running, shortest commemorative of them all. Beginning on July 4, it will offer a prime-time TV series called Bicentennial Minutes, which will run every night of every week until B-day, July...