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...Abe 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...
...until 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed a bill establishing a separate department under a Commissioner of Agriculture.* Lincoln said that Agriculture was "peculiarly the people's department, in which they feel more directly concerned than any other." Since about 60% of Americans lived on farms in those days, Abe had a point. Agriculture Secretary Freeman is fond of quoting Lincoln, although today less than 9% of the U.S. population lives on farms...
...Pentagon, nor is it as monumental as the Roman Baths of Caracalla, after which Penn Station was modeled. But set down where it is, near one of the world's busiest railroad stations, shaped as it is (eight sides), lit with incandescent lighting installed by Broadway Lighting Expert Abe Feder, it is bound to command attention...
...about the South and its problems. Sometimes, in fact, its side-porch sociology is simply fatuous: the Negro is just too goody-good to be true, and Peck, though he is generally excellent, lays it on a bit thick at times-he seems to imagine himself the Abe Lincoln of Alabama. But the children are fine. John Megna, who played in Broadway's All the Way Home, has talent as well as teeth. Mary Badham and Phillip Alford, a couple of nice kids the producer found in Birmingham, don't have to act right-they just are right...
Saturday, February 9 Reading Room (CBS. 12:30-1 p.m.). Author-Editor Harry Golden talks about Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows...