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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1970
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is published daily except Sundays and holidays by the Banner Publishing Corporation from 25 Asia Street in Bennington Vermont 65201.
The Silberman report is discussed as a grim warning about backward paths in education. The Mt Anthony school board faces decisions on basic subjects versus humanities and how to prepare students for unknown futures. Martha Mitchell’s inflammatory comments spark national tension between educators and the Nixon era.
In the solution of many problems, the know how of the technologist and the engineer can play a vital role toward our recovery. Control of technology and industry yes, but not their destruction.
A Watertown letter by Young Summer suggests individual steps to curb pollution. The piece notes concern for the environment and hints that some may avoid joining others with excuses. Frances Jenney Ross of Harvest Hills, North Bennington, appears among references.
Gerald Rafferty argues the distinction between ignorance and stupidity in political rhetoric. He critiques misused terms by public figures, likening brains to computers and stressing the dangers of oversimplified labels in evaluating history and current events.
A reader laments the cutting of YMCA trees on Main Street and critiques materialistic motives behind demolitions. The letter references political anxiety, Stewart Alsop, Newsweek, and ends with a plea to preserve nature amid urban change. Ruth Ellen Steinman signs the piece.
A reader from Mt. Anthony Junior High School criticizes tree cutting on Main Street. She notes birds and squirrels residence in the trees and recalls a Banner headline urging to help save Earth by saving trees. She urges preservation.
Vermont writer labels Maine’s overdevelopment as severe, citing Maine coast loss, private island purchases, and plans for Casco Bay energy projects. Headlines from the Press Herald frame the issue, noting public access shrinking and inland expansion. The piece urges action and compares regional responses in New Hampshire.
The piece argues Nixon claimed restraint but faced questions over his use of legislative power, noting he sent less bills than predecessors, praised for foreign policy wins, while education and welfare reforms stalled. It contrasts critics, Mansfield, Agnew, and Congress, with Lombardi/Hornung anecdotes from the Boston Globe.
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