Congress Falls On Its Face In Senate Style Critique
Larry L. King mocks Congress for failing to override Ford's veto on the $5.3 emergency jobs bill. He argues Democratic miscounts and leadership errors, notes Republican leverage, and critiques energy, military and spending priorities amid a volatile political moment.
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South Vietnam
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Newark
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Washington
Fourteen Flavors of Life and a College Nonsense
A 1975 Christian Science piece reflects on life after college, comparing career choice to sampling 128 ice cream flavors. The author, five years out of college, laments overcommitment versus flexibility, the glut of graduate spots, and the cost of time and money, seeking a single lasting direction.
Bennington News Briefs Cover Immunization and School Progress
Preschool children will be immunized against diphtheria at a minimum charge of 50 cents. Seven graduates receive diplomas as Bennington’s smallest class since 1900. Sportsmen deliver 20,000 small mouth bass to Somerset reservoir and Great Pond. A proposed Beech Street newsroom school would cost about 50,000. May unemployment in the Bennington area stands around 900. John Hughes earns praise for a Saturday Evening Post cover. In 1965 notes, a Vermont free public education bill sits with Gov Hoff, and local bids and town vault plans are outlined.
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Norfolk
Somerset Reservoir
Great Pond
John Hughes
Artists’ Colony
Arlington
Saturday Evening Post
Vermont
Philip Hoff
Bennington Village
Arlington Selectmen
Buying less stealing more headlined by 1930s shoplifting tale
A social column surveys rising shoplifting in America linking 1960s trends to 1930s fiction and real cases. It notes a New York Times piece about a secretary who steals for thrill, cites a German chemist fined for valuables removed from the Smithsonian, and recalls figures on losses in retail. The piece cites university and regional anecdotes, cites costs to consumers, and questions deterrence versus punishment.
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Robert Sherwood
Paris
New York Times
Heinrich Hans Joachim Jahn
Washington
American Chemical Society
Smithsonian
Museum of Natural History
Lake Placid
Billie Burke
Flo Ziegfeld
Bruce Wright
Bronx
Alexander’s
South Carolina
Dennis O Neill: Dartmouth Graduate Turned Musician and Writer
Dennis O Neill is a Dartmouth College graduate now pursuing a career as a musician and freelance writer. He engages in composing and performing while contributing articles and pieces across various outlets.
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Dartmouth College
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