Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make sure cranky toddlers do not prompt their parents to hurry too much, Hypermart offers a Ball Room, where parents can deposit their children to be supervised. But anyone who wants to shop in a 200,000-sq.-ft. store should remember to don jogging shoes. Says Melba Lincoln, a Dallas homemaker: "Shopping here is like running a marathon...
...automaker, the fourth generation of a family dynasty is moving up. Last week the company elevated two young executives to its board of directors: Edsel B. Ford II, 39, and William Clay Ford Jr., 30, both great-grandsons of the founder. Edsel II is general sales manager of the Lincoln-Mercury division, and William Jr. heads Ford's operations in Switzerland...
...south as Tucson. Alaskans see the Eskimo logo as an unofficial state symbol, but others are often bewildered by it. Bruce Kennedy, chairman of the parent Alaska Air Group, complains that critics ranging from passengers to Comedian Jay Leno have observed that the Eskimo looks like Gaddafi, Manson, Abraham Lincoln, Willie Nelson or Johnny Cash. Tired of such comments, Alaska Airlines has announced tentative plans to put the Eskimo on ice and replace him with a stylized mountain peak...
Kenwood expects to sell the first DAT machine in the U.S. next month. It will be a combination radio and tape player for cars. Ford has announced that similar units, made by Sony, will be in some Lincoln Continentals by June. While those two machines will only play tapes, other models that record music as well have been promised for the summer by Harman/Kardon, Marantz and Casio...
...media event with flowing blood and absurdist overtones. The aging Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chanted om in Lincoln Park. Jean Genet, the French homosexual playwright and ex-convict, wrote titillated prose about how attractive and powerful the cops' thighs were. Abbie Hoffman developed a cordial relationship with the plainclothes policemen assigned to tail him everywhere, but he shook them sometimes and spirited around town in a score of disguises...