Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan was to assume that awesome responsibility at noon Tuesday, in the midst of the most lavish festivities ever to surround a presidential Inauguration. They officially got under way Saturday night with a fireworks show at the Lincoln Memorial, followed by this week's succession of parties and balls. But that was only the televised surface. Reagan's own final preparations for his new post were both more personal and more businesslike: an emotional farewell to California, where he had risen from obscurity to show-biz celebrity and political power, and the final drafting in Washington...
Some Yippies briefly attempted to mount a parade of their own, featuring a 15-ft. "Malcolm X Missile" float, but police stopped the small group as they neared the Lincoln Memorial, several blocks from the official parade...
...festivities will begin on the weekend before the swearing-in. On Saturday night, 10,000 rockets will be shot off in a 14-minute fireworks extravaganza at Lincoln Memorial; laser beams will link other monuments. That same day George Bush and his family will be wel comed by Texas Governor Wil liam Clements at a "black-tie and boots" reception. On Sun day, there will be two candle light dinners and four concerts at the Kennedy Center, featuring Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich leading the National Symphony Orchestra. Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush will toast...
...Lincoln Park, N.J. Dear "J": Try southern New Jersey...
...reactor operations director Lincoln Clark said recently that the MIT reactor, which has been in operation for more than two decades, is not powerful enough to irradiate metals easily for the testing...