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...week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds of the maximum retirement...
...cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched in English history." Parliamentary democracy became England's rule of law, and today a dozen nations around the world have parliamentary governments on the Westminster model, while many more emulate its trappings...
Friday, June 25 FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The historic friendship between Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...
...River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called "the most famous milestone of our rights and freedom." That document was Magna Carta (Great Charter). Last week scores of bewigged and berobed British judges, in the company of dignitaries of foreign lands, gathered in London to celebrate Magna Carta's 750th birthday. The ceremonies were somber and simple. Australia's Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies reminded the listeners that Magna Carta established that "the law is king." And American Bar Association...