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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1972
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Mall Street Bennington Vermont 052041.
The Apollo program ends as researchers weigh costs and benefits. While critics cite $25 billion spent and argue for earthly needs, supporters insist Apollo opened new frontiers and proved humans can live and work on another world. The piece notes spinoffs exist but were not enough to justify the expense, yet calls the achievement a breakthrough of first magnitude and a testament to national will when desire is strong.
Vermont and Northeast law enforcement leaders honor slain Manchester Chief Dana J. Thompson in a moving tribute. The piece urges the public to rethink attitudes toward police, confront prejudices, and support officers protecting lives and property.
In New York Times language critique, the term excessed is blamed for understaffing as boards trim budgets. The columnist notes the word is not in Webster’s dictionaries and argues it misleads about layoffs. The piece questions modern education administration and linguistic choices.
The piece argues that excess terms such as superfluity and excessed are not verbs and warns against sanctioning such phrasing by education authorities. It likens this to military industrial language shaping discourse and calls for accountability for those who perpetuate the excess.
A long fragment discusses Vietnam War imagery and political figures, joking about Number One and tunnels. It critiques rhetoric from Kennedy to Nixon, laments bureaucratic jargon, and ends with the line There is a tunnel at the end of the tunnel.
A Rutland Daily Herald viewpoint urges Vermonters to consider the Sportsman Landowner policy amid protests by Northeast Kingdom landowners who posted 42 000 acres to block hunting. Authors warn that forcing sportsmen to back landowner positions could backfire, threatening hunting and fishing access. Ripton.
Lawrence E Harrington argues against presenting the United Nations as an effective force in school mock sessions at Mt Anthony Union High. He urges debating real issues facing the world and questions last year’s agenda and UN focus, proposing a US Congress mock session if needed.
The piece condemns Walter Cronkite and CBS executives including Richard Salant for alleged attempts to muzzle critics and suppress Edith Efron’s The News Twisters. It details Efron’s charges, supporting tapes at Vanderbilt, and claims of anti Nixon and anti foreign policy slant in network news during 1968.
Brattlehorn Reformer staff writer Gretchen Becker satirically argues that starting habits like milk, money, and reading lead to worse addictions. The piece mocks drug scare rhetoric while punning on social issues and zoning law fears.
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