Keep cool with Proust Washington What a weekend
A playful column portrays a chaotic media siege over a presidential resignation call. The narrator dodges calls from Moscow to Key Biscayne while insisting on reading Proust, maintaining calm amid a flood of editorials urging resignation and demanding a decisive stance. The piece skewers press culture and political pressure.
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Moscow
Key Biscayne
CBS
Joseph Alsop
Dan Rather
Alsop
Denver Post
Detroit News
New York Times
Wall Street
Proust
William Safire
Republic
Nixon Descends Into Stupidity Claims From Editorial
A Washington Star News reprint argues Nixon era loyalty to folly, calling Watergate a harebrained scheme and Nixon’s competence a mix of clever strategy and deliberate blindness. It claims Agnew’s exit, Ford and Albert doubts, and portrays Nixon as both overly prudent and too ignorant to resolve scandals.
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Richard Nixon
Nixon
Matt Byrne
FBI
Ehrlichman
ITT
Daily Deal
Vesco
Colson Sec
Messrs
Mitchell
Haldeman
Colson
Dean
Agnew
Carl Albert
Gerald Ford
Ford
Albert
Washington
Bennington Nightline Highlights and Historic Milestones
A collage of small town notes covers a deer meat dispute at Twin Birch camp, theatre union debates, a Bennington Knights of Columbus toy fund circus, Bijur wage talks, Arlington Montains Industry Exhibits, and Green Mountain Park security, plus landmark dates from 1837 Mount Holyoke to 1960 Kennedy victory.
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Twin Birch
Somerset
United States
Little Theatre
NRA
Bennington Theatre Guild
Bennington Council of the Knights of Columbus
Milt Holland Circus Company
New York
State Armory
Bennington
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Massachusetts
Montana
North Africa
John Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Reapportionment Meeting Draws Bennington Area Interest
A public meeting of the Vermont House Government Operations Committee is set for tonight at 7:30 in Cole Hall Shaftsbury to discuss House reapportionment. Woodford residents may be moved from District 32 into a new district with Searsburgh and Wilmington, while Pownal residents weigh joining Bennington. Rep. Tom Haley Jr. urges Woodford Pownal and Bennington residents to attend and share views.
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Public Safety
William H. Baumann
Cosa Nostra Crime Syndicate
New England
Green Mountain Park
Pownal
Baumann
Vermont House
House
Bennington
Woodford
Searsburgh
Wilmington
Cole Hall
Shaftsbury
Bennington Keeps Downtown Christmas Lights On
The Banner reports Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Hiram G. Savage will proceed with downtown Bennington Christmas lights. He says CVPS did not request a delay and notes colored lights use little power, though thousands add up. Some suggest shortening to two weeks. readers invited to send letters under 200 words.
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Chamber of Commerce
Hiram G. Savage
Bennington
Savage
CVPS
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The
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William F. Buckley Jr
Middle West
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Anthony Lewis
Evans
Novak
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Russell Baker
N.Y
National Lampoon
John Wayne
By Tom Dowling
Washington Star-News
Oscar Wilde
Wilde
Oscar
Bebe Rebozo
Hughes
Archibald Cox
Wright
Gen. Haig
Richardson and
Ruckelshaus
Congress
Marie Antoinette
Nicholas II
Cox
Watergate
Halcyon
Spiro
Bijur Corp
Arlington
Vermont
U.S. 7
Screen Actors Guild
Tom Haley Jr
Columbia
Sur
Afford & Gage
J. Benkendorfer
Hawks Place
Truckin’ Coats
Black Devil
Stereos
Benn
Main St
Norcross, Rustcraft
Masterpiece Studios
Evans’ News Inc
Bennington, Vt
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