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...Senator Abraham D. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) introduced the amendment to the $6 billion tax bill. It would allow anyone paying a student's college tuition to subtract as much as $325 from the taxes he would otherwise...
...pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is preserved in Ford's Theater, now a Washington museum. The gun that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash court until he went to Harvard five years ago on a scholarship. Niederhoffer was confidently offering odds of 2 to 1 on himself. "Frankly, I hope Sammy wins," grunted Edwin H. Bigelow, 79, ex-president of the Squash Association...
With Lyndonesque panache, Kentucky's Governor Edward Breathitt last week signed a state civil rights bill beneath a huge bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in the capitol rotunda at Frankfort, then handed out 40 pens as mementoes of the occasion. He had reason to be proud...
...envious legislators from other counties who refused to appropriate funds for it, later by the belief that the university was a seedbed of rebel sentiment in the Civil War. In 1907 Missouri's medical school was one of many singled out in a study by Education Critic Abraham Flexner as scandalously incompetent, and was cut back to a two-year course...