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Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff's plan to grant tax credits to anyone paying the tuition of a college student is aimed at a genuine problem: a college education is more vital and more costly than ever. But the Ribicoff measure is the wrong way to go about cutting the tuition tab that parents must...
Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) offered the measure as a rider to a House-passed bill restoring tax benefits for business investment in equipment and buildings. However, said Senator Eugene J.McCarthy (D-Minn.), the rider will probably be deleted by the conference committee now seeking a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the bill...
Domestic cutbacks by Johnson were questioned by Sens. Abraham A. Ribicoff D-Conn, who led an investigation into the plight of cities, and Joseph S. Clark, D.Pa., chairman of a subcommittee studying poverty...
When he quit the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1962, Secretary Abraham Ribicoff described it as the "department of dirty water, dirty air and dirty looks. I feel sorry for the so-and-so who is going to take my place." One of his predecessors, Marion Folsom, an Eisenhower appointee, complained: "They expect you to know everything, and it's just not possible." One Congressman has called the department "a nightmare," another "a monstrosity." Others call it the Department of Headaches-or, more specifically, the Department of Wealth, Aggravation and Hellfire...
John William Gardner, 54, the so-and-so once removed from Ribicoff (former Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze came in between), takes wry pleasure in recalling the bloodcurdling things he heard about his sprawling domain when he first took over in August 1965. Then he adds: "I think that people just don't say that any more...