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...Hayek and Physicist Leo Szilard. Proving that youth is no barrier to getting elders' ears, Chicago's review has been cited in at least ten recent Supreme Court decisions covering everything from prayer to pornography. Among its still-young ex-editors: Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who served on the first edition...
Under pressure to support a Democratic President, Democratic liberals several times found themselves in embarrassing situations. One of the most embarrassing arose from Connecticut Democrat Abe Ribicoff's proposal that parents be permitted tax credits up to $325 a year for each child's college expenses. Torn between a longtime liberal advocacy of all-out aid to education and his loyalty to the Administration, Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey finally voted against this amendment-even though he had previously been one of its cosponsors. The college credit lost...
Senate Republicans supported Ribicoff's proposal strongly, by a count of 26-5, while 19 Democrats voted for the measure and 43 against it. In the final vote, three of its co-sponsors opposed the amendment: Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), who is the assistant majority leader, Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), and Frank Moss (D-Utah). Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz), an announced candidate for the Presidency, voted for Ribicoff's proposal...
...Russell B. Long (D-La.), floor manager of the Administration's tax bill, led the fight against Ribicoff's amendment. He claimed that aid would go to wealthy families "already getting big tax reductions in the bill" and would ignore "the pitiful cases that need it." The amendment's opponents also argued that the college tax credit would cost so much that Congress would have to cut back individual rate reductions. The proposal would also have increased the deficit in the Federal budget, which the Administration has been eager to reduce...