Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There followed over the next hours, as the state that nurtured Abraham Lincoln prepared to vote, electronic vignettes of all the contenders. John Anderson, billed as the candidate of ideas, was seen soaring and swooping, eyes nearly closed in his passion, resembling no one so much as the late Billy Sunday. George Bush, the cool Ivy Leaguer, appeared with his neck veins protruding, finger wagging, voice in upper fortissimo. Jimmy Carter was there too, via the tube, talking calmly from the White House as the world he helped to create seemed to be collapsing around...
...know," I said, as I unfastened the tailgate and handed out a box of hand ball trophies that the jeweler hadn't wanted because they were silver-plated. "This thing could get out of hand. The Republicans might decide on Abraham Lincoln...
...Anderson problem. Lincoln would have a lot of middle-of-the-road support, and citizens of diverse ideologies would climb on his bandwagon, and he'd win with 55%, maybe 60% of the popular vote...
...Republicans won't pick Lincoln," I said...
...M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory, to gether with researchers elsewhere, has come to the rescue of the overtaxed satellite watchers. Using the latest in silicon-chip wizardry, it is setting up a worldwide network of monitoring stations that should vastly expand NORAD's ability to keep tabs on orbiting objects...