Vermont debate over capital punishment in wake of Furman ruling
The Vermont Coalition Against Legalized Murder plans a March 19 public meeting at Bennington Free Library to discuss capital punishment. The event includes a screening of Death Row and centers on opposition led by religious legal and prisoner groups with ACLU support.
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Moses
Sinai
America
Upstate
New York
Supreme Court
Furman
Georgia
High Court
Vermont
M. Jerome Diamond
House
Judiciary Committee
Diamond
Senate
American Civil Liberties Union
Hugh A. Bedau
Tufts University
Bedau
Warren Burger
ACLU
Tom Wicker
Vermont Coalition Against
Bennington Free Library
Positive American Optimism Column Shorts Outrageous Claims
A digest of patriotic affirmations praising Ford, Nixon era figures, and broad civic progress. It touts low unemployment, strong national mood, growing respect among youth, and mild winter weather while asserting American vitality across politics, economy, and culture.
Village election battle framed by Morrissey Cushman
Looking Back notes contest for village presidency between Francis E. Morrissey and John Halsey Cushman. Also reports Mount Pleasant school winner Alice Secoy in town spelling match at Chiselville school. Fire destroys a two story home of Fred J. Archer in South Shaftsbury. A North Bennington fisherman recounts catching a live dog through Lake Paran ice with beef steak bait. Bennington area rating considers manufacturing contracts or public works to avert distress. Continued mention of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Park and unclear continuation.
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Francis E. Morrissey
John Halsey Cushman
Alice Secoy
Mount Pleasant
Chiselville School
Fred J. Archer
South
Shaftsbury
North Bennington
Lake Paran
Poor
The Age of the Downer and Hugo Downer’s Mock Doom
A satirical portrait follows Hugo Downer, once a poster child for pessimism, who runs Accentuate the Negative and Doomsday Press amid a culture of doom. As optimism wanes, Brzezinski and Etzioni debate gloom and moderate optimism while Downer faces a final, ironic realization about the American Dream and his own smile.
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Hugo
Molly Brown
Pollyanna
CIA
Needlepoint
Doomsday Press
New York
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Columbia
Human Behavior Magazine
Amital Etzioni
Lighter Side: Birds Without Feathers Flee By War Plans
Washington humor column recounts a mock Army briefing in Kentucky where Maj. Gen. Bulljack leads a comical discussion on Operation Coldfeet to depilate blackbirds and force them to ground, debating defoliation, treaties, and bizarre backup pie plans.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Kentucky
Ulysses S. Bulljack
44Th Anti- Blackbird Brigade
Col. Burnside Templecair
Maj. Jackson Wallstone
Chemical Warfare
Vietnam
Fort Campbell
Wallstone
Col. Custer Hornbigg
Custer
Bulljack
Environmental impact statement on Moses project
Humor column notes a UAW member compares football collisions to car crashes with a 15 mph rate. The piece juxtaposes athletic impact with vehicle damage costs and frames a biblical joke about Moses drafting an environmental impact statement for the promised land.
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United Auto Workers
UAW
God
Moses
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