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...deals but also for some very pleasant living. So do the parks, like Montrose and Rock Creek. So do the ball fields and tennis courts (available). The city's most famous structures have always held a special power: Lincoln, white as a sheet, looking out from his inappropriate throne across the Reflecting Pool (drained now for repairs) toward the Washington Monument; the monument itself, an elongated ghost, ringed by schoolchildren, peering over the city as if to check on its prosperity...
...Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
...Truman, and John F. Kennedy by twisting their words of hope and fortitude into justifications for heartless conservatism. These are words that many lower middle class Italians of Prince Street remember clearly; these are the leaders they still worship. Jimmy Carter knew he couldn't climb onto a marble throne next to FDR or JFK, but he also knew his audience would respond to a protest against any trivialization of the progressive ideal...
...seven-man IOP Study Group on Presidential Transition will produce two approximately 150-page studies by November. One will go to either Rep. John B. Anderson R-III.) or former California governor Ronald Reagan if President Carter slips from the throne. "The purpose is not to make substantive recommendation on how to manage a specific transition," Moore says. "We look at past experiences, dating as far back as Eisenhower, and try to draw together the lessons which apply to the current conditions of society and the federal government...
...Chicago consists of memorabilia and trinkets from the colonial years of the 19th century. Though they are of historical interest, few of them have any aesthetic dimension at all, and the effect tends to fluctuate between Trader Vic's and Portobello Road: old photos, crude portraits, a throne run up by a lo cal German carpenter in 1847 for King Kamehameha III. More recent currents in Hawaiian culture are sketchily represented by the attempts of living artists to make art based on aboriginal myth. These efforts at nostalgic revivalism look like airport...