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...Yorkers noted the day proclaimed in tribute to "that grand citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...
Bedtime for Israel's most distinguished philosopher, Martin Buber, is 10 o'clock. But his 85th birthday was an exception. At the stroke of 11, some 400 students from the Hebrew University, where he taught before his retirement, paraded up Jerusalem's Lovers of Zion Street to the door of Buber's villa, carrying torches and singing in Hebrew "For Martin's a jolly good fellow." On the veranda, a pretty coed garlanded the white-whiskered Hasidic sage with flowers and soundly bussed his cheek. "What?" asked Buber with a merry twinkle. "Is there only...
Without the high jinks and foofaraw that accompany most national conventions, the American Bar Association last week gaveled open its 85th annual meeting, settled down in San Francisco to the serious examination of the state of the law in the U.S. and the prospects for extending the rule of law throughout the world. Key briefs from some key speakers...
Federal aid to education is no longer a slogan but rather a massive fact. According to Oregon's Representative Edith Green, sponsor of the Administration's $1.5 billion college-aid bill, the 85th Congress alone considered 683 education bills.* The current federal outlay for 689 education programs amounts to $2 billion a year, dispensed by about 40 separate agencies. "This makes it impossible," says Mrs. Green, "for any member of Congress to know what is being done." The aid comes with strings-not so much crippling directives as warping pressures. Since it traditionally gives aid only for specific...
...Only a few bills were referred by the House parliamentarians to the HUAC in the 84th and 85th Congresses...