Lady Bird Johnson Visits Bennington Museum for Grandma Moses
Lady Bird Johnson toured the Bennington Museum in Vermont with San Antonio friends Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Steeves and six Secret Service agents. Curator Richard Carter Barret guided a 45 minute visit to works by Grandma Moses and the 1776 Bennington flag.
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Lady Bird Johnson
New England
Bennington Museum
Texas
Grandma Moses
Bennington
Richard Carter Barret
San _ Antonio
Marshall Steeves
Secret Service
Lady Bird
Mrs. Johnson
Woodstock
Laurance Rockefellers
Agnew delivers farewell address amid innocence protests
Spiro T. Agnew spoke in a televised farewell denouncing criminal charges as political persecution. He admitted only to payments in 1967 for nonpolitical purposes, denied guilt, criticized media leaks and plea bargaining, and urged fair enforcement of immunity laws while leaving office.
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Washington
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Maryland
U.S
U.S. District Court
Nixon
Agnew
Baltimore
Congress
White House
United States
Arguments Heard On State Land Use Plan Hearing
About 75 Bennington County residents attended a hearing on Vermont’s state Land Use Plan at a Manchester elementary school. The session, third in a statewide series under Act 250, sought public input before final draft goes to the governor and then the legislature.
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Martha Elliott Manchester
Bennington County
Schuyler Jackson
State Environmental Board
Jackson
Vermont
State Land Plan
We Didn’t Believe, Did You?
Eyewitness account from a local man describes the Arab kidnappings of Israeli hostages and the surrounding events, detailing the sequence and personal observations. The report presents a firsthand perspective on a tense incident with emphasis on individual experience.
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CLC
TRB
Bennington
Chelsea
Patriot
N E Power weighs three more nuclear plants plans
New England Power Co of Westboro Massachusetts says it is studying a two million kilowatt nuclear plant near Monroe New Hampshire across from Barnet Vermont and St Johnsbury Vermont. The firm also considers four pumped storage stations at Fall Mountain New Hampshire across the river from Bellows Falls Vermont. Two large nuclear stations are discussed for Pittsburgh New Hampshire. No final decisions have been reached.
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Westboro, Mass
UPI
St. Johnsbury
Yankee
Vernon
New England Power Co
Westboro
Mass
New England Power
Monroe
N.H
Connecticut River
Barnet
Vermont
Fall Mountain
Bellows Falls
Pittsburgh
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho Win 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho were named co winners of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee in Oslo. The award cited their efforts toward a negotiated end to the Vietnam War, noting the grim toll on civilians and regional tensions.
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Oslo
UPI
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Kissinger
Vietnam
Paris
Tito
Nixon
Yugoslavia
Dom Helder Camara
Nobel Institute
August Schou
Nobel Committee
Jon Sanness
Oslo University
Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute
Alfred Nobel
Meir says Israeli forces cross canal in Sinai war
Prime Minister Golda Meir announced to the Knesset that Israeli troops have crossed the Suez Canal and are operating on the Egyptian side as fighting rages on the Sinai front and on the road toward Damascus. She tied cease-fire talks to a full prisoners exchange and warned of Jordanian involvement.
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Tel Aviv
UPI
Golda Meir
Knesset
Suez Canal
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Meir
Israel
Syria
Soviet Union
Jordan
Middle East
Sadat
Cairo
Snow falls four inches at Sugarbush Warren area
UPI reports four inches of fresh snow on Sugarbush Ski Area in the Warren Waitsfield region on Monday night. Local residents embrace the weather and say it’s time to think snow.
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Warren
UPI
Sugarbush
Warren Waitsfield
Planners here coordinate a gala sixteen six by elizabeth dw yer
Vermont bicentennial commission led by Lt. Gov John S Burgess visited Bennington County to outline plans for 1976. Sen Madeline Harwood and James Hormel explained themes heritage preservation festival and horizons 76. A transportation recreation loop from Rutland to Lake Champlain would link Bennington to central points by rail and flatboats to attract tourists while preserving history.
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Elizabeth Dwyer
John S. Burgess
Vermont
United States
Rutland
Lake Champlain
Circle
Connecticut River
Bennington
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N.E. Power
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Sloane
New York
New Hampshire
Paradise
Park-McCullough House
North Bennington
Burgess
Hormel
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