Word: lincoln
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Benito Mussolini, Napoleon, Louis XIV and Alexander the Great were all cat haters. Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer, Victor Hugo and Mark Twain were all cat lovers. I much prefer the company of the latter group...
...There are 135 major military-industrial plants in the U.S.S.R. The report contains an outline of a tank plant in Nizhni Tagil (pop. 400,000), 850 miles from Moscow. Superimposed over a map of Washington, the factory stretches from the Lincoln Memorial to Capitol Hill, a distance of more than two miles...
...longest line of new cars this fall belongs to Ford. The No. 2 carmaker is adding four-door versions of its small E cort and Lynx cars, as well as a scaled-down model of the Lincoln Continental that will sell for about $21,000. The trim new luxury car, which gets 17 m.p.g. in city driving, is intended to draw drivers away from sporty foreign cars like Mer cedes and BMW. Beams Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "I've personally sold half a dozen of them already...
...nation of immigrants" arrived homeless. From the Pilgrims on, they carved their shelter, their human architecture out of wilderness. Lincoln was born in a frontier hovel. Later generations crowded ten to a squalid room in Lower East Side ghettos. Yet Americans operated on a premise of expansion and progress: the private home- more important, more basic, than the automobile, that bright headlong vehicle of the dream- was the outward artifact by which Americans defined themselves...
...yesterday, though, Greg was all business, clutching a shopping bag full of textbooks. "There's $84 worth of books in here--I got the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the books for my tutorial [Greg is a government concentrator with sophomore standing], some Shakespeare--I mean, what kind of liberal arts education can you get without reading a little Willie...