Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Over. Despite Huberts efforts to achieve a rapprochement, the evidence of the polls continues to gnaw at Lyndon Johnson. He can take solace from a couple of hopeful facts. One is that other Presidents have dipped to even more drastic depths of disfavor and have then recovered-most notably, Abe Lincoln in 1864 and Harry Truman in 1948. Another is that many citizens will eventually realize that Bobby has soared in the polls at least partly because he does not have to shoulder the onus of high office. "If Kennedy were President," says Democratic Congressman Morris Udall (Stewart...
...first two weeks of investigating the plight of the nation's cities, Abe Ribicoff's Senate subcommittee dwelled mostly on the statistics of the problem, demanding answers and offering aggressive criticism. Last week it was the com mittee's turn to sit back and listen- and what it heard from a parade of witnesses was the chilling flesh-and-blood story of what life can be like in the ghetto slums of large U.S. cities. The Senators got an uncomfortable view of places where people have to hustle for pocket money and a moment's pleasure...
...report last month drew attention once more to the needs of the Negro there. Yorty, who disdains reading from prepared texts, appeared with an assortment of somewhat disorganized exhibits that seemed to affect the committee much as a red flag affects a bull. And, not least, Bobby Kennedy and Abe Ribicoff, who as Governor of Connecticut had been among the first to support Jack Kennedy's presidential bid, saw before them a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and wrote a pamphlet called "I Cannot Take Kennedy...
...season as "another year of Merrick." Among the ten shows he is producing are two musicals: / Do! I Do!, based on Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston; and Breakfast at Tiffany's, which boasts Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (Funny Girl), Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) and, as Holly Golightly, Mary Tyler Moore from TV's Dick Van Dyke Show...
George Washington gazes benignly out from the $1 bill; Abe Lincoln graces the $5; Alexander Hamilton the $10; and even Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, lives in the eyes of Americans-though not too many of them-on the $10,000 bill. Thomas Jefferson has had a deuce of a time. Since 1869, his face has adorned the $2 bill, but folks have never really warmed up to the twosies. In the days of freewheeling ward politics, a $2 bill was often taken as a sign of a bought vote; shopkeepers found them increasingly bothersome...