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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1962
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
A Vermont editor weighs the progress and risks of educational television ETV. HR 132 would fund 25.5 million in matching grants. mountains and isolation shape Vermont’s ETV rollout with state universities foundations and noncommercial stations involved. The piece warns ETV could enrich small schools expand access and narrow gaps between secondary and higher education while cautioning against turning learning into a passive machine driven process. It argues teachers and parental guidance remain essential to human learning amid new media.
The article argues that despite persistent East West arms deadlock in Geneva, forces push Soviet and Western societies toward shared interests. Khrushchev praises a high living standard, hints at common economic goals with the West, while China resists. If no major war occurs, convergence may ease tensions and allow peaceful disagreement.
The New York governor Nelson Rockefeller operates under tight party splits and media scrutiny as he resists public doubt about a possible 1964 presidential run. He defends liberal and conservative labels as outdated while facing his divorce and shifting Democratic opposition. Rockefeller presses ahead with foreign policy critique and a team of experts to bolster national and international policy credentials.
Forest officials debate planting American red oaks to supplement English oaks in Sherwood Forest. Some Britons oppose the plan, preferring side-by-side testing. Nottingham and Robin Hood lore anchor the tale with centuries of history and myth.
A New Englander quotes an old Post piece contrasting liberal and conservative views. It asserts liberals seek freedom from want and full employment even with some liberty loss, while conservatives value liberty as the means to a good life, justifying want among men.
A letters page discusses Mrs. Ber ncie Reynolds’s loss in Manchester Vermont elections over the Pine-Vail dispute. It argues elected officials must explain actions, warns perpetual scrutiny, and notes recall risk for School Board members Clyde Bryant Jr. and Howard Ambrose amid district tensions. Mitchel Quelhurst, New York City.
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Barbara Ward argues that social cohesion must be rebuilt at village level to stabilize African politics. Restoring village structures provides a foundation for secure, productive adoption of new post-colonial, post-tribal social patterns.
A Springfield Union reprint tells how Jack and Betty Goody, once active charity volunteers, become compulsive fundraisers. Their devotion costs them jobs, health, and home as cirrhosis and poverty follow. tenants raise a relief fund, but the couple lose their means, illustrating a warning that no cause is good if it harms the giver.
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