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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1975
Page
5
A Gorilla visits a saloon and orders a dry martini, pays with a sawbuck, and engages in a running exchange about jokes and sexism. The bartender riffs on politics and insults, sparking a heated, comic confrontation ending with a punch and a giraffe joke about pricing.
In Boston Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller court Republican right wingers at a Chicago hardware week rally. The piece argues the party uses right wing rhetoric to deter defections and pressures Ford to align with business lobbies that favor government intervention and subsidies.
The North Bennington Graded and High School opens with 372 students overall including 193 in grades, 66 in junior high, and 113 in high school. Rev George Williams notes 50 years of evangelical preaching before his 80th birthday. Sticker Stupplebeen, Paradise Diners second baseman and Monument A.C. fullback, sustains a knee cut from Labor Day play. Airport talks stall due to local delays as Norton Barber moves to clear obstructing trees. Bennington townsfolk bid Company C farewell at Monday noon.
A bumper sticker reads Support the Right to Arm Bears. The article notes Camp Pickett bus departures, a YMCA march moment with Krawczyk and Buck, and local land offers to Little League on Town Farm property. It covers real estate open houses, a Merritt Hewitt inspection, and Harvest Hills plans. It also recalls Hudson River discovery in 1609, 1922 church marriage vows change, Gemini 2 in 1966, Haile Selassie deposition in 1974, and his death in 1975.
An analysis argues that crowd campaigning by presidents and candidates creates media value but risks assassination. It proposes unscheduled stops and on scene campaigning to balance film coverage with safety, urging leaders to replace fatalism with practical, on site tactics.
A Burlington Free Press note describes a woman filing an accident report after denting a parked car while parking her own. When asked what the other vehicle operator could have done to avoid the crash, she replied that he could have parked somewhere else.
Washington Post columnist Nicholas von Hoffman argues that Americans view politicians as parasites cowards sellouts and thieves. He notes a contradiction between worship of presidents and contempt for them as office seekers while citizens express patriotism yet revile government when enjoying a beer.
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