Watching Two News Channels Hardly Feels New
A reader details TV viewing on a Dorset slope, noting identical formats on two networks and fashionably long trench coats worn by reporters. He jokes about backdrops and a mock Chicagoland vibe while critiquing winter news coverage of Buffalo and droughts, ending with and playful quips about Republicans dwindling in supply.
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Green Peak
Dorset
5Th Ave
Green Mountains
Times
White House
Pentagon
Hoover Dam
Grand Canyon
Mike’s Pizza Palace
Chahoes
N.Y
CBS
Garrick Uttley
NBC
Nome
Alaska
Buffalo
National TV
Tucson
New England
Letter to the Banner on citizen understanding of electricity
Walter Cook of Vermont Electric Cooperative argues the public is confused about energy issues. The writer contends the average citizen is not confused and disputes the manager's view.
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The
Banner
Walter Cook
Vermont Electric Cooperative
Human cost of nuclear power and long lasting wastes
A reader argues the true cost of nuclear power includes human impacts from uranium mining and ongoing pollution, plus radioactive waste that remains lethal for 250,000 years, challenging Walter Cook’s figures that nuclear is cheapest aside from hydro.
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Cook
Atomic Energy
Republicans Endangered by Nixonian Glands in White House
A satirical analysis claims Republicans fear President Carter is secretly a Democrat. It jokes about detector tests for party loyalty, lampoons Stan Strom Thurmond style devices, and riffs on upheaval within the GOP as Carter pursues a balanced budget and welfare reform while inflation and unions press.
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William Jennings Bryan
Lord Bryce
Carter
White House
Sen
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Sen. Thurmond
Arthur Burns
Burns
Oval Office
Remembered Local Life and Notable Events in Vermont News
Seniors at Bennington and Rutland High Schools stage a joint graduation banquet at True Temper Inn Wallingford with a table service rotation. Windsor County reports Vermonts largest tree downed in a windstorm, a 200 year old balsam poplar on Henry Q. Allens Shaftsbury farm. Stark Theatre shows historic Hindenburg film. Wilmington game warden Roy Flood aids injured man through glucose infusion en route to Putnam Hospital. A fishing mishap leads to a .22 caliber gun discharge in sleep. Jean Plourde becomes Becker Junior Colleges Newman Club president. Vermont Baptist officials reelected. Hoosick Falls public hearing draws sparse turnout. American Association of University Women book sale raises funds. Head Start grant for Southwest Vermont grows to 69717 dollars, ten thousand more than last year. Historical milestones note Lincoln nomination in 1860, I Am An American Day in 1941, Apollo 10 launch in 1969, and Mayaguez rescue losses in 1975.
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Qiaisi
Irving R. Levine
Mother England
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Manhattan
Aegean
Brooklyn
Cooperative
Malvine Cole
Thurmond
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Mathias
Gerald Ford
Jerry Ford
Switzerland
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Scout
Bennington
Rutland
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Vermont
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Shaftsbury
Stark
Hindenburg
Roy Flood
Wilmington
John Alexander
Putnam Hospital
Jean Plourde
Leo Plourde
Newman Club
Becker Junior College
Robert F. Spencer
A. Sidney Edson
First Baptist Church
Vermont State Baptist Convention
Edgar W. Johnson
Manchester Center
Hoosick Falls
Albowicz
New Jersey
Albany
George Jenkins
Weeks Street
American Association of University Women
John Riddle
Bennington- Rutland
Abs.tam Lincoln
Republican Party
Chicago
Mayaguez
Gulf of Siam
Javery
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H
South Street
Panasonic
Soundesign
Te Treasure Chestivision
J. F. Collins
Mahar & Son, Inc. Funeral Home
Main
Order OF the Goden
Berkshire Plaza
Joan Curtis
Oom Opti
Roberts
North Adams, Mass
Bank Americard
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