Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landlord abides by the law, 55° or 68° is not exactly the smothering warmth Americans, unlike Europeans, have come to expect. In apartment buildings with fireplaces, urbanites are joining the national craze for wood power. When Chicago's park district had some trees chopped down in Lincoln Park last month, the loggers outran the joggers to haul away the wood before the city could remove...
...Indiana. Ah! Memory serves. This Bloomington is the place where Adlai Stevenson II grew up a renegade (i.e., a Democrat) and now lies buried with his ancestors, men of substance in the town since the very beginning; men who had urged a Republican circuit lawyer named Abraham Lincoln to run for President...
...might have been Walt Disney World, which lay just across a grimy interstate. Outside the hotel where the happening occurred, giant hot-air balloons wafted under a blazing autumn sun. Dixieland bands strutted down walkways, and characters in Indian headdresses, space-shuttle caps and Abe Lincoln garb wandered about. Under an Australian pine by a swimming pool, a stocky old gentleman in a rumpled blue suit discoursed on farm policy. He said his name was Harold Stassen and he was once again running for President...
Meryl had auditioned in New York occasionally while still at Yale. When she moved to the city, directors scrambled to use her. Her first professional appearance was at Lincoln Center in Joseph Papp's production of Trelawney of the Wells. Next she played in a program of two one-act plays and did the seemingly impossible: she became both a slovenly, bovine Southerner in Tennessee Williams' Twenty Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and a thin, sexy secretary in Arthur Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays. Says Director Arvin Brown: "The audience didn't realize that...
...fact, some of our Cube graduates have become monuments in American society. Abe Lincoln, pictured to the right, never wrote for the Cube; but if he had his statue might not have been hidden on the porch of a building...