Word: lincoln
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...accounted for much of his personal success in the mid-'60s, when carmakers were discovering the youth market. For snazziness and corporate profligacy, Detroit has not equaled itself since. The introduction of a sporty new sedan, orchestrated by Iacocca, typified the wonderful wantonness. In 1966 he sailed dozens of Lincoln-Mercury dealers to the Virgin Islands, where after a meal on a beach at sunset, an amphibious landing craft thrashed ashore. Out onto the sand popped a brand-new white Cougar driven by Singer Vic Damone, who proceeded to croon...
...Abraham Lincoln compared its power to the surging Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence...
RECUPERATING. Debra Winger, 29, spirited screen star and belle of Nebraska Governor Robert Kerrey; after a January hiking accident near her New Mexico home injured her back and landed her in traction; in Lincoln at the Governor's mansion. The couple met in Lincoln during the filming of Terms of Endearment...
...taken care of that summer internship interview with your Congressman, climbed the Washington Monument and gawked at the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian. s Since you're bound to end up on The Mall between the Capital and Lincoln's scowling marble face; why not step into the least-frequented building there; the National Boitanical Gardens...
...noisy barrage. As soon as Congress reconvened after its Lincoln's Birthday recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they can get their spring planting done. The most important business delayed was confirmation of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real...