Simplicity and leadership in Hyde Park visit
Franklin D Roosevelt home visit at Hyde Park highlights value of simplicity over spectacle. Memorial Day ceremony there drew few cameras, with historian Arthur Schlesinger delivering a measured address as park rangers recorded little. The piece argues modern leaders risk hollow grandeur unless humility guides power.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Franklin Roosevelt
Chicago
Washington
Rose Garden
Arthur Schlesinger
Village nursery opens under recreation program
A Look Back report notes the Village Recreation Committee opens a nursery school for ages two to four under the Memorial Park recreation program. A crowd witnesses the Arlington Dodgers defeat the Cambridge Squaws with Shirley Decker hitting the only home run. Bennington water commissioners review pipeline drawings to ensure long term water supply, and Mrs. Elmer Harland Johnson leaves her Bennington pottery collection to the Bennington Historical Museum. Drought effects grow in Bennington as Lake Hancock drops six inches in five days. Historical notes mark Wyoming 1890 statehood, Hughes round-the-world flight in 1938, Telstar relay in 1962, and Sen. Edward Gurney’s 1974 extortion indictment.
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Memorial Park
Cambridge
Arlington Green
Arlington Dodgers
Shirley Decker
Nington
Bennington
Lake Hancock
Stamford
Wyoming
Howard Hughes
Telstar
United States
Europe
Britain
France
Florida
Edward Gurney
Kissinger human or more like a game plan
A reader’s Digest piece riffs on a TV panel claim that Kissinger is “only human” and the ensuing rumor mill. The column mocks misinterpretation, cites Pope quotes, and suggests mistakes may fit a broader strategy rather than undermine his role.
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Washington
UPI
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Newt Faglie
Alexander Pope
Amsterdam Freedom and Tolerance Shape Modern Life
A reflective portrait of Amsterdam as a center of industry and liberal values. The piece praises freedom and tolerance as limits on pollution, notes car bans in parks, and highlights education, religion, labor, and social policy. It recalls historic openness to immigrants and refugees, including Huguenots and Jews, while linking civic harmony to economic and cultural life.
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Amsterdam
Shell
Fokker Aircraft
Unilever
Heineken
Detroit
Chicago
Gary
Ind
Grand Rapids
Vondel Park
Boston
Common
New York
Central Park
Spain
William of Orange
England
Netherlands
Alfrink
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Ben
By Dick West
Newt
Truman
Middle East
State Department
Reader’s Digest
George G. Connelly
Nieumarkt
Saudi Arabia
Beatrix
Hitler
Prince Claus
Kaiser Wilhelm
Massachusetts
Chester Center
Vermont
Ane
The
Shultz Jewelers Gine
American Gem Society
Main Street
Tadeoxidpp
Onda
Cpice H' Nice
Bennington’s Health Food Center
North ST. Benn
H. Greenberg
Cihousewares
Ikitchens
Electrical Cumber & Building Supplies
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