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...salute Senator Abraham Ribicoff for his courageous stand in voting for the warplane package [May 29] against a pressure-packed Jewish lobby...
...began on April 11 in the gracious apartment of Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. For dinner that night, he and his wife entertained Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Frank Church and Ted Kennedy and Scotty Reston of the New York Times. Over duck à I'orange, the men had a free-flowing talk about the nation's foreign policies, including the newly announced plan to sell military aircraft in a package to Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a matter already causing intense debate...
Says Schwartz: "I call that my 'burning bush' moment. I had read Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, which contains a great deal about Lincoln's physical characteristics." Suddenly everything connected. The Great Emancipator, Schwartz realized, was probably afflicted by Marfan's syndrome...
Knox College, founded in 1837 and located in Galesburg, Ill., is a private, coeducation, liberal arts college. Knox presented its first honorary degree in 1860 to Abraham Lincoln...
...intelligent life "could turn out to be the most exciting story of the ages." Writing in the liberal Christian Century, Jennings says that if extraterrestrial life forms prove able to reach us, we might need to differentiate between the "great God of the Universe" and the God of Abraham and Moses, who might have been "simply a spaceman-become-a-tribal-deity." Wildly, he also proposes that some sort of primordial "genetics experiment" could have created Jesus Christ with his unique religious insight...