Word: lincoln
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...over the amount of taxes due has swelled from 27,910 at the end of 1979 to 53,440 now. A number of experts believe that there should be not only more prosecutions but stiffer penalties. "A touch of jail for the Harvard graduate is a strong deterrent," says Lincoln Almond, the U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island...
...customer who rents a Hertz car 40 times for four days or longer, for example, will build up enough credits to earn all of the following: a Texas Instruments home computer, four 16-oz. crystal beer mugs, 18 nights of free hotel accommodations, free rental of a Cadillac or Lincoln for 14 days and two round-trip plane tickets to a major city in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Bermuda, the Bahamas or the Caribbean. Avis has countered with such prizes as color TVs, cruises on the Queen Elizabeth II and free tickets on TWA flights worldwide...
...choice may sometimes be perverse. Abraham Lincoln rather liked Dixie. Someone decided that poor Franklin Roosevelt loved Home on the Range, so he was condemned to sit through the tune scores of times...
Stieglitz was born (1864) a year before Lincoln was assassinated and died (1946) a year after Hiroshima. The author of Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography knew him only during the last 20 years of his life. But Sue Davidson Lowe is his grandniece and thus was privy, as she grew up, to glimpses of an artist that outsiders seldom saw. He was Uncle Al to her, an old gent who liked chocolate ice cream cones and miniature golf, and who used summers at the Stieglitz family compound in Lake George, N.Y., to relax and flirt innocently with young female relatives. She knew...
...50th anniversary of Newsweek, Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham hired not one hall but three of New York City's biggest. While most of the magazine's staffers celebrated at the Sheraton Centre hotel a few blocks away, a stream of stretch limos deposited celebrities at Lincoln Center for a biflorate black-tie dinner party at the New York State Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Hostess Graham reportedly busied herself with the tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger and Lawyer Edward...