Word: lincoln
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...most ways it was a rather standard gangland slaying. The victim was driving his 1977 Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made...
Bush has not changed his views of history because of his vantage point inside the White House. But some ideas have been enlarged. The Vice President has noticed a greater depth of feeling about Abraham Lincoln than he had sensed before. Seated beside a woman from India at a recent dinner in the White House, Bush was startled when she talked about "the beauty" in the painting of Lincoln over the mantle and how Lincoln looked different in that picture at that moment than she had imagined all her life...
Robert Bates, Manning is the professional descendant of David Homer Bates, whose operators scribbled out Civil War battle reports from Morse code rattling Abraham over the telegraph lines. Bates often handed the war news to Abraham Lincoln on his melancholy evening visits to the office next to the White House...
...that 22 years, Manning, 50, worked at the approximate site of that old telegraph terminal, but only the legends of Lincoln's days remained. When Manning retired three weeks ago, as head of the White House's travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...
...shot Gigi in the back of the head with the gun in his left hand and Victor in the back of the head with the gun in his right hand. He fired once more into each head. He stuffed the guns into his belt and dove out of the Lincoln on the street side, so schoolyard kids would...