Reapportionment Suit Seeks Federal Action in Vermont
In Burlington, Prof. Andrew Nuquist defended the view that only a federal court can order reapportionment unless state action is taken. Testimony focused on avoiding a constitutional convention, with officials preparing for defense as the historic hearing nears its end.
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Burlington
Andrew Nuquist
Vermont
Nuquist
House
Senate
Charles E. Gibson Jr
Defendents
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Howard E. Armstrong
Hilton A. Wick
CDVC
U.S. Supreme Court
Sterry R. Waterman
St. Johnsbury
Crispe
T. Garry Buckley
Bennington
Robert S. Babcock
UVM
Political Science Department
Babcock
General Assembly
Wick
Waterman
Municipal Fathers Delay Sewer Merger Idea
Bennington Selectmen and a village trustees committee tentatively favored separate operation of sanitary sewer facilities. A town takeover would require a prior general consolidation, with final decision tabled pending legal advice on rescinding earlier votes.
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Bennington
Baker Hearing Behind Closed Doors For Now
U S Senate investigators push behind closed doors to probe Robert G. Baker in matters of conflicts between official duties and private business. Senator B Everett Jordan says sessions may open to the public later with Baker as a witness. A West German woman Ellen Rometsch is mentioned in rumors linked to Washington figures though she denies intimacy with others.
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Baker
Rules Committee
Senate
Washington
Ellen Rometsch
Rolf
Rometsch
Americans Missing After Viet Nam Jungle Battle
In a Viet Nam jungle engagement near Tan Phu, a South Vietnamese task force of about 120 men, including three U.S. advisers, was overwhelmed by Communist guerrillas. The three missing Americans were two officers and a medic, with one Air Force pilot also wounded. Viet Cong estimates varied, and radio jamming hindered U.S. communications as patrols searched the area.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Air Force
Viet Cong
Tan Phu
FBI Nabs Communist Spies in New Jersey
FBI agents arrested an American electronics engineer cleared for top secret work and a Russian chauffeur on espionage charges after a late Tuesday rendezvous near an Englewood station. Two Russian diplomats with the Soviet UN mission in New York were released due to immunity. a car seizure yielded a briefcase with Air Force contract data and a cigarette lighter powered camera.
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N.J
FBI
Englewood
United Nations
New York City
Air Force
United States
John William Butenko
Orange
Igor A. Ivanov
Butenko
International Electric Corp
Paramus
Ivanov
Amtorg
U.S
Yuri A. Romashin
U.N
Gleb A. Pavelov
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
Pavlov
Romashin
International Electric Corporation
Norwood
Closter
Vermont Eyes Rutland Railway Reopening Petition
The state of Vermont asked ICC for authority to acquire 131.6 miles of Rutland Railway track abandoned in 1961 and lease it to Vermont Railway Inc. The plan covers 125 miles from Benn ington County to Burlington, plus the Bennington and Bellows Falls branches, with option to purchase and operate as a common carrier.
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Bellows Falls
Rutland Railway
Bennington Planners Move On Post Office Site Debate
Town officials reveal doubts about selling the South Street town office for a new Bennington Post Office. The planning commission weighs Elm Street options as selectmen cite parking and aesthetic concerns along with traffic and zoning limits.
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Bennington
Post Office Department
Postal Department
Elm St
George H. Plumb
Eldred
Elm Street
Commission
Dayton J. Wakefield
Selectmen
Powers
State Armory
Wakefield
van Santvoord
South Street
New England
Joseph Higgins
Bennington Village
Washington Avenue
Zoning Commission
Ordin
Mayor Saves Pigeons From Shoot Out
Niles mayor Mowitt S. Drew vetoed a plan to line up 125 marksmen on downtown rooftops for a one hour pigeon shoot. He deemed the proposal too dangerous and granted the birds a reprieve.
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Niles, Mich
Niles
Mowitt S. Drew
Drew
Holden Moves To Defend Vermont School Quality
Vermont Education Commissioner A John Holden Jr releases six statements to show statewide high education quality in response to criticisms by John Kristensen of Guilford. He notes rising teacher numbers, higher salaries, more guidance counselors, and expanded curriculum work, urging more state aid through an equitable funding formula.
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Holden
Vermont
Montpelier
A. John Holden Jr
State Board of Education
John G. Kristensen
Guilford
Kristensen
State
Portraits return: John Robinson hung in Vermont governor's wall
Hoff orders the restoration of former Democratic governor John Robinson on the Vermont statehouse wall, a 109 year gap closed as the 38 year old Philip Hoff seeks inspiration from the last Democratic chief executive. Robinson, born in Bennington in 1804, served one term after a protracted 1853 election and died in Charleston in 1860.
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Montpelier
John Robinson
Vermont
Statehouse
Thomas Chittenden
John
Philip Hoff
Hoff
Robinson
Helen McMartin
Ferrisburg
Samuel
Bennington
Moses
U. S
Ethan Allen
State Senate
Congress
Erasmus Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Charleston
S. C
Race problem in a small Southern town
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