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The Senate approved a multi billion ABM defense step urged by the administration, though experts warn it cannot deter a large scale attack. The plan risks escalating the arms race, cutting funds for aid, and undermining disarmament and Vietnam peace efforts in favor of mutual restraint with Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Red China
Soviet Union
Robert McNamara
Johnson
U.N
Moscow
MAUHS Name Debate Fades Into Regional High School Action
The editor notes argue for keeping MAUHS as the regional high school name due to unity, existing equipment labeling, and the dignity of the acronym. They salute Marian Cummings, welcome new union board members, and cite rising class sizes that presage higher education costs and new construction beyond Bennington.
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MAUHS
CORE
WBTN
GBA
USDA
MAHS
Maz
Vermont
MAAHS
Marian Cummings
Marian
Clyde Burgess
Steve Gilman
Union School Board
Bennington
Philip Leonard
Hoosick Falls Central School
Letters from Lt. Robert Ransom Jr. on Vietnam War experience
Read by family, the letters from Lt. Robert C. Ransom Jr. recount two months in Vietnam near Quang Ngai and Chu Lai. He describes fear, mine and booby trap dangers, daily patrols, a combat baptism, and growing doubts about the war while detailing a night ambush, casualty figures, and interactions with Vietnamese civilians and allies. He is wounded, medevaced, and reflects on leadership, ethics, and national politics as he contemplates ending the conflict.
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Robert C
Mike) Ransom Jr
Brownville
N.Y
Dorset
Vietnam
Ransom
Quang Ngai
Vermont
Dorset Hollow
Bromley
Cam Ranh Bay
McChord
1St Cay
Chu Lai
Americal
Dmz
Duc Pho
Old Guard
Charlie
North Vietnam
Saigon
Bronxville
Washington
LBJ
Smoking Out Hubert McCarthy in a 1968 political frame
The piece weighs the strategy against Humphrey to repudiate war policy, contrasts Hubert Humphrey with Eugene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller, and weighs how Nixon, Rockefeller, and McCarthy affect the election. It notes Kennedy's 1968 appeal, media framing, and the idea of a November contest pitting Humphrey against Rockefeller or McCarthy versus Nixon. A golfer’s dream vignette closes with a self help quip.
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Boston
Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
McCarthy
Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Nelson Rockefeller
Hubert
Paul O’dwyer
New York
Jake Javits
O’dwyer
Lyndon
Paris
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Rockefeller
Espec
O— Rockefeller
Mark Hatfield
Dave Hatfield
Hank Nixon
Hatfield
Johnson
Taste is Spinach in the Mind Psychology Quote
A University of Massachusetts psychologist reports most people cannot distinguish basic tastes, linking taste to inherited attitudes rather than buds. The piece riffs on spinach trials and imagines a world where taste is unreliable, challenging gourmet culture and dieting motives while the author admits personal still tasting pleasure.
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Papasan
Mamasan
Grandmason
University of Massachusetts
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Bennington Banner
Banner Publishing Corporation
Main Street
Fischetti
War
M*carshy
Robert Ransom Jr
Robert Kennedy
Family Weekly
Elizabeth Dwyer
North Bennington
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