Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks Brothers frock coat and suit-namely the one worn by Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. The coat came to Mrs. Smith via her grandfather, a White House doorkeeper who was given the clothes by Mary Todd Lincoln. Though the bidding is open to everyone, the National Park Service lusts for the frock coat for its Lincoln Museum in Washington's restored Ford Theater. Would the original maker of the suit like to buy it back for the nation? "We felt," replied a store executive, "that $50,000 was too high a price even for a Lincoln-owned...
...major airports; and it boasts a scattering of private copter pads, including one for the two-state Port Authority. Mayor John Lindsay uses the fire department's East River pier or the lawn of his official residence at Gracie Mansion. Even the meadows of Central Park have been pressed into service for emergency police-helicopter landings and Lyndon Johnson...
...solid flesh would melt," he moans. Thus begins the strange version of Hamlet that Director Joseph Papp presented last week at his Public Theater in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. In his years as producer of New York's open-air Shakespeare summer festival in Central Park, Papp has proved his ability to do the Bard straight. This time he does Shakespeare free and fancy. To a background of mind-bending rock music, his characters speak of Denmark, although they are costumed to suggest a modern military camp. Yet it is abundantly clear that the time and place...
...what we have known, all is pretty well straightened out here now," Ireland announced that he was stepping out. Weary of the wars? No, just going to a new theater. This week, pending routine board approval, the redhaired, crew-cut campaigner will move one block down on Manhattan's Park Avenue to the headquarters of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Though he will be only one of 24 vice presidents, Ireland will play a familiar role as special assistant to ITT Chairman and President Harold S. Geneen...
...general keeps track of them all with a Mc-Namaran touch for thoroughness and detail that constantly awes his subordinates in Saigon. They insist that Momyer knows where every allied unit and road-friendly or enemy-is in South Viet Nam and where every bridge and truck park is in North Viet Nam. His pilots credit him with uncanny in sight into the best flight pattern to avoid flak on their missions north, an insight gained in part through his own participation in at least one of each of the 30 types of missions, from reconnaissance to rescue operations, that...