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Bennington, perhaps more than any other college, has the right to present a dance concert for the public. Up in the Vermont hills a lot of intensive training goes on among the students who elect Dance as their major. Daily classes in ballet and modern dance, prolonged study of choreography and performing and among the students, fiercely professional devotion, become routine. The happy result is a group of young dancers who know what they're up to. Every other year during the winter term the best of the Bennington dancers set out on a dance tour of the east coast...
Wisconsin's Melvin Laird also backed Goldwater in 1964, and is not committed to any candidate this year. As chairman of the House Republican Conference, Laird said, his principal concern was which presidential nominee could help elect the most Republican Congressmen. Laird thinks Rockefeller is that man; and the latest Louis Harris poll, matching Rockefeller, Nixon, Romney and Ronald Reagan against Lyndon Johnson, supports Laird's view. The survey found Rockefeller and Johnson tied. Nixon trailed by nine points, Romney by 13 and Reagan by 14. But, warned Laird, Rockefeller cannot afford to wait until the convention, because...
...great day for Massachusetts' legislature, the General Court. It was on that day, early in the morning, that a $94 million tax bill was sent to and was signed by Governor John A. Volpe. In return for the successful enactment of the tax bill, Boston Mayor-elect Kevin H. White resigned as Secretary of State at noon. At 2 p.m. the children, students at "state schools" and the guests of the General Court, arrived for their annual Christmas party. A little later in the afternoon, despite the atemps of Rep. Dever (who likened House Speaker Davoren to Brutus...
Radcliffe girls will vote today and tomorrow to elect the first officers of the Radcliffe Union of Students...
...Johnson the sort of President who would be likely to yield a jot or tittle of his authority. "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion," he once declared. "And I intend to turn over this office with all of its powers intact to the next man who sits in this chair...