Alden Bitter After Loss In Vermont Lieutenant Governor Race
In Montpelier on Alden’s 41st birthday, the Senate elected Republican T. Garry Buckley as lieutenant governor despite John Alden, a Windsor County Democrat, leading in the general election. The move caps a decade long shift from Republican conservatism to Democratic liberalism.
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UPI
John Alden
Windsor County
Alden
Dorset
T. Garry Buckley
Grand Zenith lifejackets found 300 miles southeast of Cape Cod
Coast Guard found two lifejackets from the missing tanker Grand Zenith 300 miles southeast of Cape Cod. It marked first solid evidence the tanker sank with 38 Nationalist Chinese crew aboard as an intensive four day search covered over 200000 square miles of the North Atlantic.
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UPI
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Dallas
North Atlantic
Buckley election dominates opening of Vermont session
In Montpelier the 1977 General Assembly opens with T. Garry Buckley winning a tight 90 to 87 vote for lieutenant governor after a secret balloting. The result, amid crossovers and district politics, marks Bennington County’s first lieutenant governor in decades and prompts varied reaction from lawmakers.
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Bennington County
William H. Wills
Pownal
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MAC
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Carter weighs 16 billion tax cut plan with Capitol leaders
Plains Georgia UPI Carter meets with House Speaker O Neill and Senate Leader Byrd as talks focus on a 12 to 16 billion dollar tax cut aimed at spurting growth and jobs. Officials say the plan may include permanent cuts or a temporary relief with aims to align with long term reform.
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Atlanta
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Congress
Murphy Becomes Bennington College President Amid Big Challenges
Joe Murphy, 43, arrives as Bennington College's seventh president after a five year Queens College tenure amid campus upheaval and a costly arts complex. He faces a need to grow the endowment, raise faculty salaries, and balance a three year budget while preserving a low student faculty ratio. total fees run about 6550 dollars for all services.
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Bennington College
Queens College
City University of New York
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Bennington
Gail Thain Parker
New York City
Board of Trustees
Equal Time protests stereotypes in advertising
Local page highlights Equal Time protests of stereotypes of women in TV ads and discusses public reaction. Page 3 features Pete Horton on unemployment ripoffs in Vermont.
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Vermont
John Gould
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