Word: lincoln
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...drink? Perrier Light.") Thompson--whose populistic slogan is "Tough times demand a tough leader"--capitalized on "the wimp issue" and has coasted from a narrow deficit to a thumping 19-point lead in the most recent poll, released Sunday. When the results roll in tonight from the Land of Lincoln. Thompson, 45, will almost certainly cruise to an unprecedented third term in the governor's mansion that the challenger's father. Adlai E. Stevenson II, occupied from...
...deposits that perhaps may be as small as $2,500. Said Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston: "I think it's terrific." Dreyfus, which manages the third largest money fund with assets of $12 billion, reacted swiftly. Just days earlier, it had announced plans to buy the tiny Lincoln State Bank of East Orange, N.J. By making application to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency for permission to start its own bank as well, Dreyfus sent a signal that it was determined to get into banking one way or another. Investors in the Dreyfus Liquid Assets fund can already write checks...
...expected to pick up on the plethora of New York catch phrases with which Prager litters her stories. Even "The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device," a cynical tale of women fighting in combat-ridden Vietnam, contains a few passing references to "a gay friend of mine who does props for the Met." Bendel's department store, the "Hers" column, Jerzy Kosinski, Brearley and, yes, the Fly Club manage to sneak into the collection's other stories...
...collection's longest story--"The Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device"--that Prager really lets all, her fantasles hang out. Here she details the adventures of operation. Foxy Fire, a special female detachment stationed in Vietnam. Under the direction of a frigid Radcliffe grad (Major Victoria Lincoln-Pruitt), a strange conglomeration of prostitutes and army career women prepares to implement the war's newest and most terrifying weapon, the L.P.A.R.D. This nasty device, used either offensively or defensively, makes casual sex an extremely dangerous enterprise--at least...
First, Washington oldtimers cannot remember such an ill-mannered assault on a President in the august East Room under the daunting gaze of George and Martha Washington. Second, Gary Richard Arnold, the congressional candidate from Santa Cruz, Calif, (slogan: LOOKS LIKE LENIN, TALKS LIKE LINCOLN), who provoked Reagan, was the perfect person to spark the Irish flint, suspected but rarely revealed publicly, beneath then smiling, benign Reagan surface...