Vermont scrutiny of reapportionment and a push to delay
The debate over Vermont legislative reapportionment continues as Attorney General Adams seeks to delay action until 1963. Opinion writers note the Senate reapportionment dominates talk while House realignment is not on the horizon. Justice Frankfurter’s views are discussed amid fears of changing representation.
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Vermont
Charles J. Adams
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Rutland
Burlington
Justice Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Tennessee
Voice
Landgrove
Bennington
Reapportionment Stand Off Faces Vermont Officials
The Brattleboro Reformer notes political overtones in Republican and Democrat moves over Senate reapportionment. Attorney General Adams asks Court to lift injunction delaying elections in Chittenden and Rutland counties, while Gov. Keyser and party leaders weigh a 1963 solution, risking further delay and continued constitutional misalignment.
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Brattleboro
State
Senate
Chittenden
Rutland
Superior Court
Harold G. Sylvester
General Assembly
Chittenden County
Rutland County
Charles Adams
Keyser
Debevoise
Supreme Court
Sylvester
Gov
James Oakes
Att Y. Fren
Charles J. Adams
Montpelier
Vermont Senate reapportionment stalemate drags on in Montpelier
News from Montpelier shows chances for a special session of the General Assembly to resolve the 1950s reapportionment stalemate fading. Gov Keyser is quoted on a 50 50 or slight chance of calling a session while endorsing a court motion to carry the issue to 1963. The piece criticizes his inaction and questions why he did not act sooner.
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Montpelier
General Assembly
Keyser
Supreme Court
House Senate
Worthwhile TV Programs Next Seven Days
New York AP notes three or more events worth watching next week. The Movie Star features Dane Clark on NBC Sunday 10 11 pm. Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett star in a CBS Monday two woman special 10 11 pm. Noah and the Flood airs Thursday.
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New York
Julie
Carol
Carnegie Hall
NBC
CBS Symphony
George Antheil
Dane Clark
Julie Andrews
Carol Burnett
CBS
Mort Sahl
Perry Como
Jan Sterling
Beverly Garland
Mark Richman
Alice Ghostley
American journeys bind a global class to Midwest welcome
Janet Burns accompanies graduate students from Africa, the Near East, India and Latin America on a 3,000 mile bus tour of the Midwest. The Williams College trip for Masters of Arts graduates marks more than academics, linking them to Ford plants in River Rouge, Akron rubber, Iowa corn, Chicago to Milwaukee, Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes and Midwest hospitality.
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James MacGregor Burns
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Near East
India
Latin America
Plains States
Cluett Center of Development Economics
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Alfred G. Cluett
Williamstown
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River Rouge
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Iowa
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Niagara
Great Lakes
Plains
Radcliffe
Washington
League of Nations
Ba Than
Ba Thwin
Monti
Sodi
Salahie
Abbas
Kivane
Oxel
Kabanda
Djang
Shibeshi
Shastri
Rahman
Sicherl
Guerra
Batiz
Shohola
Mathur
Franco
Braga
Fred Lecce
Berkshire Views Foreign Students Learn The Meaning of America
A 13 day, nine state visit to rural Iowa and Chicago shows foreign college graduates how America produces goods. Roswell Garst outlines corn and poultry farming scale while Janet Burns leads the group providing American context to students from many nations.
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America
Memory of D-Day Eighteen Years On
New York AP reflects on the 18th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. The writer recalls the taste of victory, the silver dish souvenir, Winchester Cathedral, interviews with casualties, and Ernie Pyle's Brave Men. He notes the dismantling of the armada and the need for humility and unity to prevent future war.
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New York
Normandy
Winchester
England
Omar Nelson Bradley
Winchester Cathedral
France
Ernie Pyle
Russia
Nixon Returns to Lead Califor nias Gubernatorial Run
Nixon sweeps Shell in California GOP primary with about 70 percent of the vote and faces Democratic Gov Edmund Brown in a high stakes general election. Kennedy and Eisenhower likely to campaign for Brown while Goldwater may stay away from California. Shell signals opposition to Nixon and hints at conservative fallout in November.
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Joseph C. Shell
Nixon
Edmund G. Brown
Ernor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Palm Springs
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Thomas H. Kuchel
Goldwater
California
Shell
Exclusive Monkey Club in Massachusetts Sparks Debate
New England Vignettes notes a private country club in Townsend that accepts only seven monkeys from Brazil as guests of doctors from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Retina Foundation. The facility guards purity by limiting access to managers Linwood Hatfield and his wife, who wear masks during feeding.
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Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination
Townsend
Mass
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Retina Foundation
Institute of Biological and Medical Sciences
Boston
Animal Country Club
Linwood Hatfield
Miriam
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Minn
Taha Ab
Berkshire
Sudan
Roswell Garst
Nikita Khrushchev
Henry Wallace
Coon Rapids
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Board of Trade and Federal Reserve Bank
Cluett House
Mrs. Burns
Hal Boyle
Brown
San Francisco
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
New England
Gordon Vincent
Gardner, Mass
Vincent
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Adams Printing Co
William Csey
Medford
John MacMillan
Edward Place
MacMillan
Skipper
Casey
William S. Cutler
Cutler
Edward S. Hen
Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower
Heney
Montpelier Corporation
Yale University
Yale
Ray Pratt
Yale Athletic Association
East Haven
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Pratt
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