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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
The first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress charter is observed amid sobering commentary. While Latin America’s political shocks and persistent inequality temper optimism, the program’s core aim of social reform remains sound, though decades of effort may be required and progress may not be rapid. The president bore some responsibility for overpromising, but the underlying rationale endures.
The piece argues President Kennedy’s Far West tour was political but contained limits to endorsement and intervention. It notes potential backlash if he sided with Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts and recalls past purge attempts by a president against party dissidents, urging careful involvement.
In Salvador, a conference on tensions in development urged democratic progress as essential to long term growth. Five points warned military rule harms economics, fuels preemptive coups, swells arms budgets, and risks future communist acceptance. historian Salvador de Madariaga notes dictatorship fosters collaboration with communists.
A visitor from Virginia tours an old Salisbury orchard. he questions pruning and fruit, prefers blossoms, and recalls farm life. The narrator admits the land once held a large orchard and muses on cider, vinegar, and applejack while the visitor contemplates future plantings and bees.
Ted Kennedy faces a tough path to win the Massachusetts Democratic primary and secure the U.S. Senate nomination as Eddie McCormack runs a strong challenge. The race mirrors past clashes like Dewey Truman, with Kennedy allies branding the effort inevitable while critics call the operation arrogant and detached.
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