Word: lincoln
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...next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five of them. That's because in the other two, I'm dead...
David Jensen, 38, a real estate broker in West Bloomfield, Mich., has traditionally bought a new car every two years. He purchased his fully equipped Lincoln Town Car for $13,000 in 1979. Last week Jensen returned to his dealer's showroom to eye the new Continental, but he quickly became another victim of what Detroit calls "sticker shock." The price on the car's window: $25,692. Says he: "Damn, that is expensive! It persuaded me to keep driving my '80 until it won't go any more. Then I'm going...
...from among 1,421 entries last May in a national competition, was submitted by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. "I've studied funerary architecture, the relation of architecture to death," says Lin. She has pointed the 200-ft.-long walls of her memorial west to the Lincoln Memorial and east to the Washington Monument. On those walls will be listed the names of the 57,709 Americans who died or were declared missing in Viet Nam. The names will appear in chronological, not alphabetical, order (another source of criticism). The roll begins on the right wall, with...
None of the runners-up, however sincerely conceived, deserves a place near the Lincoln Memorial. While there is nothing sacred about the Mall, the majesty of this green carpet demands digni fied simplicity, if not nobility, of any newcomer. Lin's design meets that demand...
...tabled all regular business and met in joint session to listen to Mayor James A. Fox, who issued a proclamation declaring Monday, October 3 a public holiday and urged the people of Cambridge "to unite in a testimonial to the martyred president." "Never, at least since the death of Lincoln, has there been such general absorption in a public question," the Cambridge Chronicle declared between its black borders. Indeed, the weekly Chronicle devoted a large portion of its two news and commentary pages to the matter. In addition to the details of the death and the ceremonies, and the general...