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Explosive Situation. The court's decision coincided with a new effort in the Senate by a most improbable pair of Democrats-Connecticut's liberal Abraham Ribicoff and Mississippi's conservative John Stennis-to require nationwide school integration. Ribicoffs amendment to an Administration bill appropriating $1.5 billion to help school districts desegregate would have required all U.S. schools in metropolitan areas to achieve a minimum racial ratio by 1985. This would be done by discarding city and suburban boundaries and requiring each school in the area to have at least half the percentage of black students that...
...Hollywood's "meat parade" was the butt of what passed for the evening's jokes. As for Scott himself, he slept through the televised ceremony at his New York farm; his sons woke him up to accept a mock substitute award from some friends: a statue of Abraham Lincoln with the words GOD A'MIGHTY, FREE...
...additional view," Sen, Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.), who did not vote against releasing the report, chastised it for failing to see the problem in a larger focus...
...life"), almost stolen the show from Peter Sellers in Strangelove, and played in Desire Under the Elms opposite his wife Colleen. They now had two sons, but as his talent matured, his personal life began to crack. Everything broke open in 1964, after Scott left for Rome to play Abraham in John Huston's behemoth film The Bible...
There are those who maintain that Crum is but one among many. Indeed, Senate subcommittee sources in 1969 confirmed private reports that the black market in U.S. dollars and machinery may have been costing the American taxpayers upwards of $2 billion yearly. Asked by Senator Abraham Ribicoff if there were more "crumbs" operating in Viet Nam, Bybee replied: "Senator, there are many, many crumbs, although they haven't been as successful as William J. Crum...