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...state is small enough for voters to get to know, and apparently love, the representatives they send to Washington. In this century, Vermont has rejected only one member of its congressional delegation who sought re-election. Thus when moderate Republican Senator Robert Stafford decided to retire after 18 years, the state's lone Congressman, seven-term Republican James Jeffords, 54, immediately was seen as his heir apparent. Jeffords had little difficulty defeating Democrat William Gray, a Burlington lawyer and former U.S. Attorney seeking his first elective office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven New Faces | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...proposed program has several advantages over the existing Stafford Student Loans, as the former Guaranteed Student Loan program is now called. Since repayments are directly taken from one's earnings, like Social Security deductions or income tax withholding, default is rendered virtually impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bright as the STARS | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

...callousness and insensitivity that Bennett showed to the plight of millions of American students shocked legislators. "If I knew he would make these kinds of statements, he would not be the Secretary of Education," Sen. Robert Stafford (R-Vt.) said at the time...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Bye, Bye Wild Bill | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...JEAN STAFFORD: A BIOGRAPHY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...There are no second acts in American lives," Scott Fitzgerald famously remarked. But in the lives of American writers, there often is one, and it is the second act of Long Day's Journey into Night: a downward spiral of drink, disillusion and self-destructiveness. Jean Stafford followed just such a pattern, all the more regrettably because her first act was so full of energy % and promise. Fresh from a Colorado upbringing, she married Poet Robert Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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