Leahy on the press urges Vermonters to expand national view
Senator Leahy criticizes Vermont media for focusing on local news and urges reporters to spend time in Washington to better explain national issues. He argues for two way communication between Congress and Vermont, promotes cross border coverage, and warns against media pandering while stressing the need to inform and educate. He cites historic preservation projects in Rutland and Brattleboro as examples of federal involvement benefiting Vermont communities.
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Vermont
Washington
Boston
Boston Globe
Herald-American
Globe Or
New York Times
New York Daily News
New York
Vermont Press
Senate
Brattleboro Reformer
Congress
Burlington Free Press
Rutland Herald
Wcax-Tv
Greenberg
Rutland
Union Station
Brattleboro
Ice House
Burlington
State House
Montpelier
Capitol Hill
United States Senate
Eugene Dennis
Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
Nixon
Children’s Book Week highlights popular titles and new releases
Today marks Children’s Book Week with a Bookviews list of kid favorites. Curious George Nancy Drew Charlotte’s Web Dr Seuss The Wild Things Little House Judy BOOK TALK 7 Bookshop Norman Rockwell poster and counting books featured. Abrams debuts Norman Rockwell’s Christmas Book in 1978 calendar format.
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Bookviews Magazine
Curious George
Nancy Drew
Charlotte
Web
Dr. Seuss
The
Little House Books
Judy
Arlington
Norman Rockwell
Rockwell
Saturday Evening Post
Abrams
Pupil Visit to Bennington College and Local Happenings
Readable items include a rural school excursion to Bennington College to view Egyptian art, a live captive cock pheasant on Main Street to be relocated by Warden Jesse Watson, Red Cross canvass total at 98 dollars, Eva's Beauty Salon weekly specials, Mamie Eisenhower's 56th birthday with amethyst jewelry, deer mounts priced 17 to 22 dollars, taxidermist Harry Coulter in North Bennington, and Bennington College tuition and board fees for 1952 53.
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Bennington
Bennington College
Stefan Hirsch
Mamie Eisenhower
Harry Coulter
North
Kennedy bargains shape S 1437 criminal code reform bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances S 1437 the Federal Criminal Code Reform Act of 1977 amid sharp party splits and liberal concessions. Kennedy brokered a pact with McClellan to drop repressive changes in favor of liberalizing reforms while supporters seek simpler fixed sentencing and reduced penalties.
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Nixon
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Sen. Kennedy
Judiciary Committee
Sen
McClellan
Arkansas
Sen. McClellan
American Civil Liberties Union
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