Word: polk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week when a handsome new book, The Presidents, by the National Park Service, was mailed around town. George, John, Thomas, Andrew, William, Millard, Abraham, Chester, Warren, Franklin and all those others march formally out of history. There are other Jameses too, but with last names like Madison, Monroe and Polk. At the end is No. 39: Jimmy...
...President who performs his duty faithfully ... can have any leisure," wrote James K. Polk in 1848. "If he entrusts the details ... to subordinates, constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operation of the Government myself...
...Perhaps Polk could do it, but no modern President can. "I've reserved for myself only the things I have to do," Jimmy Carter says. But everything still revolves around the President. He sits in his study-with pastorals by American impressionist painters on his wall, his bookshelves laden with biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy-and seems very much alone. But all things converge upon him, and there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost...
...teams had been in the finals before. But the talent was topflight. Two teams had gone through the season undefeated, and most had lost no more than two of their scheduled 21 games. College scouts were there to check out players such as Rae White, a forward from Southeast Polk High in suburban Des Moines, who averaged 38 points per game, and 6-ft. 4-in. Marlena Mossbarger from Kennedy High in Cedar Rapids...
Tiny Belmond upset the tourney favorites, Ankeny, in the first round, then succumbed to Southeast Folk's sharpshooters. In the other half of the draw, Defending Champ Lake View-Auburn survived the first round but was then outgunned by Kennedy of Cedar Rapids. Saturday night, the Southeast Polk Rams and the Kennedy Cougars prepared to battle for the title. The Rams, led by Rae White's deadeye shooting, were the more polished and experienced players, but Kennedy had the towering Marlena Mossbarger and her "little" (6ft. 2 in.) sister Mona...