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Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Arguments for: a moderate, a Jew, a proven vote getter in bellwether Connecticut. Arguments against: religion, a lackluster record as Kennedy's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
...perhaps the unkindest cut of all, Kennedy men have been coming in for intensified attacks in Congress from such liberal Senators as Paul Douglas, Albert Gore and Abraham Ribicoff. The outcry was evident last week in the Senate Finance Committee, where Democratic liberals roundly chewed out Heller when he testified on the tax bill. Gore sarcastically criticized Heller's economics, and Ribicoff snapped: "I think the Administration is painting itself into a pretty tight corner. You are going to have to spend more." Heller got such a rough going-over from the liberals that conservative Harry Byrd hardly...
...Awfully Sorry." The night after Valachi described "Bobby Doyle" of Stamford, Conn., as triggerman in three 1930 slayings, a Stamford businessman named Robert Doyle, who was twelve years old in 1930, began getting nasty phone calls. Next day, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund...
Hayden, Ariz. Ribicoff, Conn...
...Capitol Hill," quipped Borge to an audience sprinkled with Senators and Representatives. "I was in the Far East spreading good will. Then I read the news in the papers, and thought I'd better come home." The show was arranged by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who hoped it would help sell Congress on his pending bill to establish a national arts council and an arts foundation...