Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his differences with Manchester, Roberts' main mission in Truth is to debunk the tomes purporting to prove-contrary to the Warren Commission findings-that J.F.K. was the victim of a conspiracy. On this question, Manchester and Roberts are in accord. Lincoln's body was disinterred four times, and Roberts speculates that the widespread doubts about the assassination raised by the conspiracy mongers may in time lead to demands that John Kennedy's remains also be unearthed...
...Joel R. Kramer '69 of Eliot House and Glen Oaks, N.Y., News Editor; W. Bruce Springer '69 of Leverett House and Shawnee Mission, Kansas, News Editor; Charles F. Sabel '69 of Eliot House and West Hempstead, New York, Editorial Editor; John D. Reed Jr. '69 of Eliot House and Lincoln, Editorial Features Editor; James M. Lardner '69 of Adams House and New York City, Book Editor; Jeffrey C. Alexander '69 of Lowell House and Los Angeles, Assistant Features Editor; Richard R. Edmonds '69 of Lowell House and Wilmette. Ill., Assistant Features Editor; David L. Friedman '69 of Lowell House...
...general sales tax, raising it to 5? on the dollar; 5? more per pack of cigarettes, boosting it to 8? and 50? more on a gallon of liquor, to $2. Next day, a Reagan aide sent out a memorandum suggesting that state employees volunteer to work without compensation on Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays, thus saving the state-according to the Governor's arithmetic...
...proposal went over like a leaden bear. Union leaders protested, the Democratic-controlled legislature announced it would take off a long weekend (including Lincoln's Birthday), and even the Republican Secretary of State, Frank Jordan, said his office would close for the holiday. Worse yet, the chairman of the Assembly's Revenue and Taxation Committee, Republican John Veneman, introduced tax bills markedly different from Republican Reagan's. Veneman proposed, in addition to an increase in the sales tax, which inevitably discriminates against lower-income groups, a general increase in corporate and personal income taxes...
...East Wind. There are some evenings in the theater when no vestige of dramatic joy can be scented, tasted, felt, seen or heard. Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has provided far more than its foul share of such evenings. East Wind, by a 41-year-old Polish expatriate, Leo Lehman, is a mighty ill zephyr that further solidifies the company's reputation as the home of seasoned failures...