Bennington Health Care seen as community duty and need
This final piece in a Williams College student survey argues elderly care limits and local gaps in Bennington. It notes 48 elderly housing units for 5000 seniors, 49 Level I beds and 131 Level II beds, and Medicaid Medicare gaps before 1977. It urges decentralized planning, public involvement, and local health education to boost access and reduce costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Vermont Veterans Home
State of
Vermont
Bennington County
Bennington News Highlights From Local and National Events
Francis Morrissey linked to Wilmington & Hoosac Tunnel rail line aiding a Boston New York to Schenectady excursion to inspect the Looking Back mammoth plant at American Locomotive Co. Walter Hollister and his new guide dog Tony become familiar in town. State engineers study underpass near Bennington Museum while a photo of Big Mill tower appears in This Week. FCC plans 10 Vermont TV stations. Tran Vin Dinh speaks at Bennington College on Vietnam stability and reunification. Three families homeless after Church Street fire in Pownal. Mary B. Maynard named Vermont Mother of the Year to be honored at the State House. First Baptist Church marks 125th anniversary. RCA check image from 1926 honored. 1968 South African Airways jet crash. 1972 Apollo 16 lunar landing. 1976 Supreme Court decision glimpse.
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Mammoth Plant
The
American Locomotive Co
Walter W. Hollister
Grove Street
Tony
Bennington
Seeing Eye Institute
New Jersey
Big Mill
Ben Mont Avenue
New York Herald Tribune
Robert L. Weichert
Union Street
Ben Mont
Bennington County
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Vermont
Court orders low-cost housing to ease suburban segregation
Federal courts may require cities to provide affordable housing for minorities in white suburbs, aiming to desegregate by reducing racial zoning and housing disparities. The ruling reinforces use of court action to address segregation in suburban markets.
Fashion contrasts and social questions ripple through society
A long critique on fashion as a social performance traces gypsy chic in stores, the costs of lookalike poverty, and the power of couture to signal status. It contrasts past immigrant sacrifice with present trends, notes energy critique as American consumption fuels trouble, and closes with praise for a Betjeman poem.
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Seventh Avenue
Eliza Doolittle
Middle East
America
Iran
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Williams College
By Sarah Thorne
BOC
UCS
Office On Aging
the Red Cross
Wilmington
Francis E. Morrissey
Boston
New York
Schenectady
Bennington Museum
Tran Vin Dinh
South Vietnamese
Foreign Office
Washington
Saigon Times
Bennington College
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Church Street
Methodist Church
Pownal
Mary B. Maynard
Maynard
State House
Montpelier
John J. Daley
First Baptist Church of
London
RCA
South African Airways
Southwest
Africa
John Young
Charles Duke
Moon
U.S
Lunar
U.S. Supreme
Burlington Free Press
Boston Globe
Dee Ertell
Park-McCullough House
Ms. Ertell
Greenmont Yarns & Looms
Soe
Tru Temper
H. Greenberg
Curran
North Adams
Mass
Hanover
Kraft
Hunt
Betty Crocker
Kraft Caramels
Grandma Brown
P&r
Swift’s Premium
Tks Ae
Brownie
Mary McGrory
Gstaad
Riviera
Volga
Ellis Island
Haute Couture
New York Times
Oscar
Pauline
Yves
Kenneth
de la Renta
Peter Rodgers
Sunday Times of London
Sir John Betjeman
Elizabeth
Roberta D. Matthews
Long Beach
L.I
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