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...Oregon-born son of a Texas college president, Everett is the great-great-great-nephew of one of history's unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...
...been made abundantly clear" that former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann receiving a fair trial, Abraham V. Harman, Israeli Ambassador to the United said yesterday...
...speaking against the censure resolution, former council treasurer Abraham F. Lowenthal '61 admitted a Phillips did in a speech to the meeting, that mistakes had been made. But Lowenthal doubted that the gravity of the act warranted a censure vote in view of Phillips' service to the Council...
...time had come to bring in a new view," says President Kennedy's HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. He set out to find "a philosopher who was not afraid of new ideas, and yet had administrative ability." Ribicoff quizzed "more than 150 people in the education world," got glowing reports about Sterling McMurrin, then academic vice president at the University of Utah. "He didn't even ask what the job would pay," recalls Ribicoff...
Officials who spend the taxpayers' money are answerable to Americans who elected them. If federal funds are allocated to Catholic parochial schools, who will direct them how to spend it? We, the taxpayers? Abraham Ribicoff...