Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected today and what's doing with the Laffer Curve. Let Wriston explain three of the problems that he senses worry the nation...
Success is under suspicion, heroes are under attack. "I claim that Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy, died a long time ago," Wriston continues. "And today, Abe Lincoln could never be nominated. Abe Lincoln, the fellow who did not show up at his own wedding. Abe Lincoln, who, after Ann Rutledge died, was certifiably crazy and was found wandering in the woods, mumbling to himself. Can you imagine what a great story that would have made on Channel 7? The sad fact is that we are scrutinizing our leaders and our institutions in the kind of close detail that...
...British, whose Doppler system is built by Plessey Co., Ltd., insist that the U.S. scanning beam is clearly inferior. They also contend that computer simulations done for the FAA at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory were biased in favor of the American MLS. Some U.S. experts, including a former FAA administrator, John H. Shaffer, agree. But after technical presentations and demonstrations of both devices in Montreal, the ICAO experts voted 39 to 24 in favor of the American system. The U.S. scanning beam has won a crucial round in the quest for a prize that eventually may be worth...
Unfortunately for the Harvard golf team, that said it all. The linksters couldn't keep their heads down on the greens of the Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln, R.I., and as a result, finished third in a tri-meet with UMass and Providence. The Minutemen triumphed with a 477 score, with the Friars a mere stroke back at 478 and the Crimson four back...
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