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Connecticut's Abraham A. Ribicoff, 49, onetime police-court judge and Congressman (1949-53), has gained impressive stature in his five years in office, pushed a broad reform program through the now Democratic legislature. He got a balanced budget (but slid from a 1957 surplus of $32.3 million to a deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California...
...suggested by outgoing Joe Foss. Contrariwise, Kansas Democrat George Docking has been the only Governor to compile a budget lower than last year's. And New York's big-budget Republican Rockefeller (see New York) is sandwiched between Democratic Liberals Robert Meyner of New Jersey and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, both with modest proposals and no tax increases...
Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
Overwhelming their Republican opponents Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff won re-election, Thomas J. Dodd toppled incumbent Senator William A. Purtell and Chester Bowles captured a Republican Congressional seat. Ribicoff piled up a 610,000 plurality...
...cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...