Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nephritic kidney slices for a study by paleopathologists, who try to determine the history and pattern of disease. But, as much as anything, they would like John Paul Jones's kidneys for their famed medical museum, there to rest alongside such other patriotic exhibits as a lock of Lincoln's hair, a slide of U.S. Grant's throat cancer, sections of vertebrae (complete with bullet holes) of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and of assassinated President James A. Garfield...
Cavers will discuss the procedures and legal questions involved, and Lincoln will consider the problems of actual negotiations. The two M.I.T. professors will speak on the foreign implications of disarmament. Millikan, director of M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies, will describe the possible effects of disarmament on U.S. relations with other countries, and Rostow will put forward the Soviet policies on disarmament...
...committee, headed by Senator Humphrey (D. Minn.), will hear David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Law School, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler, Professor of International Economic Relations, Professor Walter Rostow of MIT, and Professor Max T. Millikan...
...sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer. "O.K. if I go to Jerusalem...
Banker from Lincoln. The man who minds Ex-Im's till is Samuel Clark Waugh, 65, a longtime Nebraska banker with a wide-open mind and the appropriately chubby (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.) build of a Santa Claus. Going to Washington in 1953 after 40 years with the First Trust Co. of Lincoln, the last seven as president, he took charge of international economic affairs for the State Department, became a vocal and effective champion of freer trade. Traveling thousands of miles in 28 months, Waugh helped write the GATT agreements in Geneva, campaigned for Japan...