Bennington area highlights from 1935 features and merges
A July village meeting weighs buying and razing a corner property at Water and Main. Bennington’s first relief canning starts on Pleasant Street. Millicent Rogers is noted among former Montgomery property owners. Guard units depart for Pine Camp as wartime atmosphere lingers at Armory and railroad station. A cat wins Best of Show at Memorial Park. Weekend accidents spark local headlines. A Mexican artist finds life in Sandgate after a chilly Ajijic night. Voters approve merging Bennington Village and rural elementary districts. Historical timelines include Austria’s 1914 war entry, 1945 UN charter ratification and a B 25 crash, plus Skylab linkage in 1973.
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Village Improvement Society of
North Bennington
West Street
Main Streets
Bennington
Canning Kitchen
Pleasant Street
Southampton
L.L
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil
Millicent
Montgomery
South Shaftsbury Village
State Armory
Co. C
172Nd Infantry National Guard
Pine Camp
Memorial Park Recreation
Barbara Young
Ajijic
Mexico
Lothar Weurslin
Nantel Road
Sandgate
Ann
Hasso
Tristan
Chris
Bennington Village
Much ado about rubbish by Dick West
Washington dispatch notes how The National Enquirer published contents of Henry Kissinger s trash bags. The piece questions ethics and literary flair in a cheeky critique of media intrusion and public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick West Washington
UPI
William Shakespeare
National Enquirer
Henry Kissinger
The
Enquirer
Kissinger
Shakespeare
Detente mirrors Yalta agreement
Washington column by Joseph C. Harsch argues detente echoes Yalta of 1945, noting Roosevelt faced pressure over Soviet influence and the frontiers drawn by Soviet armies. It traces partisan shifts, argues current detente is successor to Yalta, and cites Kissinger trash caper Q&A excerpts with Shakespearean quips.
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Joseph C. Harsch
Washington
Ford
Helsinki
Yalta
Franklin Roosevelt
Red Army
Europe
Germany
Berlin
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Elbe
Japan
United States
Yugoslavia
Republican Party
Soviet Union
Sen
Henry Jackson
Senator Jackson
White House
Moscow
Kremlin
Ford Vetoes See Politics of 1976 Preview Rise
The article analyzes President Ford vetoing major anti-recession bills as Congress seeks speedier recovery. It contrasts Democratic hopes of electoral gain from the vetoes with GOP and administration insistence on restraint, noting unemployment around 9.2 percent and 8 million still jobless into 1976. It cites Wayne Hays, Carl Albert, and AFL CIO leaders predicting political consequences.
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Clayton Fritchey
Ford
Congress
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Mr. Ford
Alan Greenspan
House
Carl Albert
Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Kennedy
GOP
Teamsters
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Abner Mikva
Ill
Truman
Merrie England heads for the drain satire column
Art Buchwald lampoons Britain's woes in London as inflation strikes, the pound weakens, and Wilson battles crisis while Arabs flood the city. He mocks media panic, BBC documentaries, and a Titanic aside, noting misdirected blame on the Common Market and Sevareid. A second item: mug shots backfire as thieves fail to photograph themselves, Polaroid self-portraits emerging later.
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London
Britain
Wimbledon
England
BBC
Harold Wilson
Wilson
North Sea
Eric Sevareid
America
Brattleboro Reformer
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Burgess Road
Putnam Memorial
Cole Hill
Shaftsbury
Austria
Serbia
United States Senate
Empire State Building
New York City
Jack Lousma
Owen Garriott
Alan Bean
Space
Christian Science Publishing Society
State Department
Mrs. Kissinger
Joseph Heller
Alfred A. Knopf
Mr. Shakespeare
Hinast
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Albert
Washington Post
Dick Gregory
Harvard
Vermont
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
Catamount National Bank
F.d.1.c
Merrie Old England
Art Buchwald
Indianapolis
Lenora Williamson
Editor & Publisher
Martex
Queen
King
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