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EDUCATION. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff was already at work clearing the boulder-marred road that lies ahead in Congress for one of Kennedy's firmest campaign promises: an education program calling for $5 billion in new federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional...
...audience will feel sorry for me. And you can't make people laugh if they feel sorry for you." Dick Gregory handles it right, because clearly he is not sorry for himself, as when he cracks about his politics: "To be honest, I'm really for Abraham Lincoln. If it hadn't been for Abe, I'd still be on the open market...
Powell's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances were Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, eleven Congressmen, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter Reuther's brother...
...area, relief, the Kennedy Administration has taken action. Last week the President announced a food-for-peace mission to be sent to Latin America, also dispatched Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to Miami for a four-day, on-the-spot survey of 32,000 Cuban refugees. The day after Ribicoff returned to Washington with his recommendations, Kennedy announced a $4,000,000, nine-point program of refugee aid. Among the ideas: training in U.S. methods for displaced physicians, teachers and other professionals; a program of care for unaccompanied children; subsidies to provide for the education of all children...
...playwright generally, we need not, then, be surprised by the papier-mache figure that Sheva is made to cut. He is plainly little more than a pawn--not in the plot, but of the message behind the plot. 'I take credit myself,' Cumberland writes . . ., 'for the character of Abraham Abrahams. I wrote it upon principle, thinking it high time that something should be done for a persecuted race. I seconded my appeal to the charity of mankind by the character of Sheva, which I copied from this of Abrahams.' The phrase upon principle goes a long way toward explaining...