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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1973
Page
2
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation located at 426 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont. The note lists the publication frequency and office address for the newspaper.
Editorial voices alarm at Vermont Yankee in Vernon for emitting radioactive activity at ten times the state limit and a hundred times the stricter AEC threshold. The piece urges permanent shutdown until fuel-rod problems are permanently corrected to protect residents upwind and downwind across three states.
Editor notes an unseasonably warm January in Vermont with shirtsleeves and open doors, a gift weather ahead. The piece clarifies two William Gilberts, one a lawyer and Vermont official, the other Dorset correspondent, noting they are not related. Vermont House lowers stream purity standards, risking water use conflicts with health safeguards. A National inauguration concert at Kennedy Center cancels a piece over concerns it may embarrass Nixon, replaced by Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture. Dentury News-Times quips on a neighbor, and Changing Times closes.
A City Councilman sponsors a bill to force national anthem playing at sports events, despite constitutional doubts. The piece links this to a broader pattern of weaponizing patriotism in sports, cites Madison Square Garden reversals, Scituate flag debates, and compares wartime symbolism with athletic displays, ending with Maupassant’s remark that patriotism feeds wars.
Across American sports a surge of proposed rule changes follows last week's talks. Designated hitters, pitchers, and even coaches could be substituted for others based on matchup or circumstance. Hockey, soccer, golf, and college athletics show interest, while boxing advances are slower.
A Washington reader criticizes welfare practices, condemning checks for married men, disabled definitions, and costs. She urges accountability for recipients and sponsors, questions Medicare and Medicaid, and argues the poor lack influence without money. The letter mixes personal hardship with policy critique and mentions Lincoln and Nixon as context.
A fragmented recount compares Lincoln's second inaugural with Nixon era war rhetoric. It notes Lincoln's struggle to articulate wartime aims while Nixon is faulted for lacking a clear war purpose. The piece ends with a quip about credit card humor and the mood of political messaging.
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