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...time had come to bring in a new view," says President Kennedy's HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. He set out to find "a philosopher who was not afraid of new ideas, and yet had administrative ability." Ribicoff quizzed "more than 150 people in the education world," got glowing reports about Sterling McMurrin, then academic vice president at the University of Utah. "He didn't even ask what the job would pay," recalls Ribicoff...
Officials who spend the taxpayers' money are answerable to Americans who elected them. If federal funds are allocated to Catholic parochial schools, who will direct them how to spend it? We, the taxpayers? Abraham Ribicoff...
...American Frontiers in the Sixties," discussed by Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff, Financial Columnist Sylvia Porter, ex-Army Chief of Staff Maxwell...
Quoting Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Bruner pointed out that an intonsive examination of the processes of agriculture, beginning with the establishment of the land-grant colleges in 1860, has produced an almost miraculous increase in the production of food and fibre...
EDUCATION. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff was already at work clearing the boulder-marred road that lies ahead in Congress for one of Kennedy's firmest campaign promises: an education program calling for $5 billion in new federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional...