Word: lincoln
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...City listed 2,027 baptisms by immersion, a record for the S.B.C. and, presumably, any other U.S. Protestant group. In opposition to Smith's candidacy, anti-Smith moderates fielded distinguished, disarming Abner McCall, 66, former president of Baylor University. McCall was described by his backers as "a Lincoln who can preserve this Baptist union...
...Utah to learn about the artificial heart being developed there. Says Toufexis: "Most people aren't aware of the advances that cardiovascular science has made in the past few years. If you add up all the bits and pieces, it's startling." Reporter-Researcher Melissa Ludtke Lincoln probably spoke for most TIME readers when she observed: "The breakthroughs cannot come fast enough. As possible future heart patients, we need all the help...
...extract lessons and meaning from the disaster. They might begin by trying to help Viet Nam veterans restore their lives. Many veterans say that it is too late for rhetoric, too late for symbols such as the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial that will be built not far from the Lincoln Memorial next year. Such vets want concrete help: more assistance finding jobs, more time to use the G.I. Bill. They should get it. There is something notably irresponsible about a Government that dispatches its young to be chewed up in an obscure land and then does not know their names...
American society has devoted special energy to perfecting what can be a creatively insidious form of exploitation--advertising. In its worst forms, the advertisement seeks to induce a Pavlovian response of slobbering acquisitiveness through irrelevant, and often exploitative associations: the blonde languishing on the hood of a Lincoln-Continental, or the leather-skinned cowboy touting the manly virtues of Marlboro Country. Yet these tactics are by no means confined to the world of Madison Avenue: they are used to sell daily newspapers and cheap novels, pornographic magazines and T.V. shows. The values of the advertising world steadily creep through...
Jane D. Doolin Lincoln City...