Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only with the charisma and the capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism of a Hoover, and the probity of an Eisenhower...
Wild playing ruined a Crimson effort marked by two comebacks. Bob Lincoln had relieved Crimson starter, southpaw Jim McCandlish, after the fifth inning with Harvard behind 4-3. The fireballing righti coasted through the sixth, but lost control in the seventh and ran into trouble...
...Lincoln walked Springfield's Jim Watson and Skip Clayton. Then Charlie Lelas stumbled away from an inside pitch and poked it over third base to drive in Springfield's fifth and winning...
...Hootstein rf 5 0 0 0 Lord cf 5 1 0 0 Hall cf 5 1 0 0 Houston 2b 3 0 1 0 Kare'nes 1f 3 1 2 0 O'Donnell 1b 4 1 0 1 McCandlish p 1 1 0 2 Lincoln...
...Lincoln's CIA. White tie is a far cry from the original force. Founder Allan Pinkerton, who was Chicago's first police-force detective, went into the private-eye business on his own in 1850. Later he organized a kind of CIA for Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton unearthed one assassination plot against Lincoln, spirited the President-elect to Washington for his first inaugural by a circuitous rail route that produced a famous telegram: PLUMS [Pinkerton] ARRIVED WITH NUTS [Lincoln] THIS MORNING. Plums and his men acted as Union spies during the Civil War, set up the Secret Service, spent...