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What now blocks public school aid is Roman Catholic pressure for equal aid to parochial schools. Last week Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff proposed a solid effort to aid parents of children in parochial and other private schools and colleges...
...must replace bitterness about the religious controversy in education with reason and careful thought." said the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. As one who for two years plumbed "the depth of the feelings involved," Ribicoff urged "thoughtful moderation" with six proposals for federal aid to private education. They range from bus service to building science classrooms for parochial schools. Two key items...
...outstanding stock, and Bailey's son-in-law, Conrad J. Kronholm Jr., is a member of the firm. Founded by a longtime political and business partner of Bailey's, the Kelly agency was incorporated in October 1958, only a few weeks before Abraham Ribicoff, a Bailey man, got elected Governor, ending a stretch of Republican rule in Connecticut. Right after taking over, the Ribicoff administration selected the Kelly firm to be the state's agency of record. That was a considerable coup for a small, recently incorporated agency with capital of only $10,000 (of which Bailey...
Most of them, too, were involved in a series of unprecedented successes in their home states in the late 50's. Gaylord Nelson is the only Wisconsin Democrat in about 70 years to win three state-wide elections in a row. Ribicoff was the boy wonder of Republican Connecticut, and everybody knows about the Kennedy story in Massachusetts. None of these men are neophytes like George Romney, and they all know politics is more than a set of rules written by the Founding Fathers...
...Ribicoff is another freshman Senator interested primarily in national issues, but with an emphasis different from Inouye's. Ribicoff is a politician with an easy, graceful, and informal charm who has none of Inouye's historical concern. As to the man whose duty it was to handle Congress' opposition to welfare for Kennedy, he is primarily interested in actually passing bills, and less in the proper ways. His judgements are concise, devoid of rationalization and pussy-footing: "I just did not go along with Clark on the rules fight." The bills Ribicoff has introduced are not radical, but are simply...