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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street in Bennington Vermont.
Washington columnist Doris Freeson warns that pressure on critics of Vietnam and Dominican policy signals a broader return to McCarthy era tactics. Defense and State spokesmen employ propaganda to mislead, while Johnson aides distort facts and curb access to information. The result is undermined public debate, eroded trust with the press, and dangerous polarization that could backfire on administration aims.
The column reflects on the Francis Collins accident at Main and Depot streets urging caution for young riders and pedestrians. It commends the school board for case by case handling of teachers moonlighting and comments on municipal job study work. It notes Michael Flannery surviving a plane crash with minor injuries and praises the rare recovery.
Comment by J Douglas Brown dean of the faculty of Pr ceton University, at a conference of the National Association Independent Schools. He argues democracy needs varied and competent leaders, not centralized control, and that leadership requires individual attention, human values, and sustained action in a changing world.
Analysis argues the monsoon season will shape negotiating options in Viet Nam as the Viet Cong grip villages by day and night while the United States weighs how to influence the military balance. It weighs two paths: press on with Saigon allies or pursue Vietnamese negotiations with American presence safeguarded.
In a light column, Dick West jokes that Dunkin Donut University may open a European branch with a London campus to teach Europeans doughnutology. He notes the Quincy Mass campus as the original and sarcasm on a future continental chain amid Franco American diplomacy humor.
The piece condemns a New York Herald Tribune editorials advocating keeping legal drinking age at 18. It argues the stance serves predatory commercial interests and government complacency, urging readers to see the moral failings and practical futility of such rhetoric.
The piece quotes Washington lawyer Peter Nehemkis on Dominican politics after Bosch's presidency. He portrays Bosch as overly ambitious, notes key figures like General Imbert Barreras and Elias Wessin y Wessin, and warns Washington may endure a long, fragile stay of Marines and OAS observers in Santo Domingo to prevent Castro’s influence, describing the country as Congo of the Caribbean.
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