Creative Playthings Geodesic Dome Awakens Parental Dread
A father recounts attempting to buy a geodesic dome for creative play for his children and encounters Creative Playthings at Princeton. He notes the company’s serious, psychology‑driven approach, a Learning Center, and durability claims, then jokes about assembling the dome with his wife and the kids.
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Television in Review by Rick Dubrow slips into critical tone
In a mixed CBS-TV night, He and She earns cautious praise for Prentiss and Benjamin while Dundee and the Culhane, Custer, and The Second Hundred Years fall flat with dull pacing and garbled plots. Montpelier reports three diabetes cases from Bennington County clinics. 13,720 Vermonters participated overall in health screenings.
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Santa Claus in July and a Safe Climbers Debate
A mother recounts a Creative Playthings package binge with Traffic Safety Signs Hi Sticks puzzles and Paper Costume Cut-Out Kit that delighted her children but led to a parking ticket and pratfalls. She jokes about a desk dome being repurposed and muses on marketing hype versus practical play, ending with a quip about pipe smokers foreclosing her clever idea. The piece satirizes consumer expectations and parental frustration in a playful, period-voiced tone.
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Shaftsbury Caucus Notice and Vermont fish hearings
Shaftsbury Republican Town Committee warns a caucus will be held at Cole Hall on Tuesday September 12 1967 at 7 30 p m to elect candidates to the Town Republican Committee to serve two years or until successors are chosen to consider support for a pre primary convention to select state offices and to transact other business The Vermont Fish and Game Department will hold hearings September 21 at the State Capitol Montpelier on extending the ruffed grouse open season to December and extending trout and salmon season through October Commissioner Edward F Kehoe吹
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