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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont.
A press release outlines a new book from The Twentieth Century Fund and directed by Rutgers Professor Sebastian de Grazia. It notes Americans must learn leisure, shows a 70 to 39 hour weekly drop, and discusses moonlighting and chores cutting into leisure, with emphasis on discipline and management to reclaim time.
Congress faces a race to raise the debt limit beyond $300 billion to $308 billion for the coming year. The House approved a $308 billion proposal by 211 to 192 as Senate committee hearings are delayed. Presidents and analysts warn a failure to lift the cap risks a payment crisis and possible recession, with economic burden rising if constraints force bill delays.
The piece ponders Shakespeare’s enduring impact and unknown inner thoughts. It notes his posthumous fame, lack of autobiography, and global presence from New York to Stratford locations in Connecticut Ontario and England. It asks why his work transcends time and place.
A reflective line compares clowns to ordinary men, noting they fade as time passes. It argues that wealth and power vanish, but a man whose riches were words and whose power lay in wit poetry and understanding remains alive beyond death.
A Saturday Review piece by Ralph Scoenstein lampoons crime fiction with Jack Clements as Tough Smart a hardboiled private eye in a staged dialogue. Dale Stevens supplies the client as the parody unfolds with quips about liquor drawers and improvised gunplay. An Irish Digest aside adds a dark humorous domestic vignette.
A review of Democracy in America notes Tocqueville’s Paris 1835 work and his New World study. It cites Dr C Eric Lincoln’s New Englander piece on black Muslims, warns of racial conflict themes, and cites Tocqueville’s prophecy on race relations and future revolutions.
AP reports President Kennedy seeks to redefine deficit financing as a useful economic tool to spur growth and full employment. Economists note 11 deficits since WWII, with a record 1300 billion debt, while orthodox views warn inflation from expanding money supply. Kennedy argues peacetime deficits can boost demand and later tax revenue, but opponents call it expansion of government spending.
A survey highlights newspapers as essential daily staples in the United States with a global history spanning ancient Rome to the steam powered press. From Acta Diurna to the Boston News Letter and Technological shifts in Nuremberg Venice and London, print transformed public information.
Washington AP reports the farm bill defeat sparked a flood of oratorical flourishes rather than real economic clarity. Lawmakers mocked parity concepts while spotlighting figures like Billie Sol Estes and Ezra Taft Benson as they argued about quotas and farm policy.
In Washington the House and Senate clash over rotating chairmanships on conference committees to reconcile differences in appropriations bills. The fight halts several bills and endangers pay for government workers including the Secret Service. The piece notes co equality of chambers and references past rhetoric, while contrasting modern decorum with earlier barbed language.
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