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Issues and Answers (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Ribicoff is guest speaker, one day after he is expected to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Connecticut...
...Frank Kowalski, with Bailey's blessing, was nominated for Congressman at large. And by last week almost everyone in Connecticut knew who he was-although Bailey, for one, wishes he did not. For Kowalski is stubbornly contesting the U.S. Senate nomination of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, and in so doing he is giving both Ribicoff and Bailey plenty of headaches...
...interested in politics, and a mutual friend introduced him to Bailey. As it happened, Bailey desperately needed someone to run for Congressman at large on the ticket with Ribicoff, who was seeking re-election as Governor. Kowalski seemed to fit the bill: he had a good record, no political enemies, and an unmistakably Polish name to appeal to the heavy concentration of Poles in Connecticut's industrial areas. Bailey forced Kowalski on the Democratic convention, and Kowalski won in November. In 1960 he was re-elected with 657,680 votes, the biggest total in state history...
...opposed U.S. atomic testing, criticized U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba as unduly harsh, and championed organized labor (Jimmy Hoffa recently made a special trip to Connecticut to put the Teamsters' seal on Kowalski's candidacy). He also got ideas about the Senate, and while Ribicoff played cozy (he still has not formally announced, hopes to be drafted at the Democratic state convention next week), Kowalski went to work. His old sponsor, John Bailey, now also Democratic national chairman, has tried every sort of persuasion and pressure to get him out of the race, without success...
Bitter Battle. Kowalski is hardly likely to beat Ribicoff at the convention. But he may well get 20% of the delegate vote-enough by state law to force Ribicoff into a primary election. He is determined to do just that. And if he does, many Democrats fear, the ensuing bitterness may be enough to turn Connecticut over to the Republicans in November...