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...modest ceremony awaited the first Cliffie to walk into coeducated Lamont. She came anonymously at 9:20 a.m. and was presented by two librarians with a Xeroxed copy of a picture of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. "It was the best thing we could find," a reference librarian explained. "We were glad she came. We were afraid that no one would...
Domestic cutbacks by Johnson were questioned by Sens. Abraham A. Ribicoff D-Conn, who led an investigation into the plight of cities, and Joseph S. Clark, D.Pa., chairman of a subcommittee studying poverty...
When he quit the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1962, Secretary Abraham Ribicoff described it as the "department of dirty water, dirty air and dirty looks. I feel sorry for the so-and-so who is going to take my place." One of his predecessors, Marion Folsom, an Eisenhower appointee, complained: "They expect you to know everything, and it's just not possible." One Congressman has called the department "a nightmare," another "a monstrosity." Others call it the Department of Headaches-or, more specifically, the Department of Wealth, Aggravation and Hellfire...
...following is an excerpt from a statement presented by Daniel P. Moynihan, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, to Senator Abraham Ribicoff's subcommittee on executive reorganization. Ribicoff called Moynihan's plan for an Office of Legislative Evaluation one of "the most significant ideas" to come before the committee and said he would introduce it in legislation this January...
...Senator Abraham H. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) will ask the 90th Congress, when it convenes next January, to enact Daniel P. Moynihan's proposal for an "Office of Legislative Evaluation...