Word: lincoln
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...triumphant smile as he spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since the first news shot 139 years ago, a panoramic view of the destruction caused by the great Hamburg fire of 1842; and the glories of the original...
Robert Moses, 92, master builder and powerbroker of New York City and State for 50 years, whose monuments include 35 highways, twelve bridges, more than 2.5 million acres of park land, Lincoln Center and the 1964-65 World's Fair. His vision inspired the reshaping-some said misshaping-of urban and suburban space across America...
...years Chief Justice Warren Burger has been pleading for prison programs that would help turn the myth of rehabilitation into reality. In a speech last week at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, he offered his latest vision of tomorrow's prisons: "Factories with fences around them." Inmates would turn out an array of goods for "reasonable compensation"; a fair amount would be deducted for room and board and the released workers eventually would take their places as more productive members of society. His plan, he said, has special urgency because the nation is expected to spend...
...service cost an initial $25,000 plus monthly maintenance charges that the merchants are totting up, but they believe it is money well spent. Says Pharmacist Franklin Lee: "The response has been overwhelming." Even tongue-tied doctors, policemen and school officials have expressed interest in the service, and Lincoln Village officials are considering adding more languages...
DIED. Wallace Harrison, 86, New York architect who played a major role in planning such urban complexes as the United Nations headquarters, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center; in New York City. Harrison was celebrated for his skills at organizing disparate groups of architects to work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident...