Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trouble was, the skilled candymaker was a lamentable businessman. He found himself with three factories-in Kansas City, Mo., Lincoln, Neb., and Denver. The three not only failed to coordinate but often engaged in costly competition among themselves. Stover finally sold out in 1943 to 26 of his employees. It may or may not be pertinent that 19 of them were women. In any case, the partners usually required a fulldress conference in order to arrive at the most routine sort of decision. Stover Candies made money, but not much...
Minnesota's upright Senator Eugene McCarthy felt no embarrassment in accepting the use of a Lincoln Continental for a nominal yearly rental of $750, and Indiana's Senator Vance Hartke had a comparable deal with Chrysler. But Hartke has been a leader in the drive to force safety devices upon U.S. automakers. A legislator would have to be exceptionally malleable-or poor-to be seriously swayed by such amenities. What they can and do create is a climate of friendliness and mild obligation-but that, after all, is the essence of politics as well as public relations...
...Wolf Von Eckardt, 49, a wide-ranging critic for the Washington Post, is a self-appointed protector of Washington monuments past and to come-but he is engagingly unpredictable. He urged the Kennedy cultural center to copy the best features of New York's Lincoln Center. "The camp thing to do is to call Lincoln Center middlebrow or mediocre," he writes, "but I happen to thrill to noble proportions, a festive progression of spaces, and most of all perhaps to the kind of architecture which, like good writing, is so compelling that you don't even notice that...
Harvard's pitching hopes rest squarely upon the shoulders of three returning varsity players and a handful of inexperienced sophomores. Sheperd expects junior letterman BOb Lincoln to be twirling ace this season. Lincoln comes armed with a hopping fastball -- which last season too often hopped out of the strike zone...
...bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming...