Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been passed; when it was over, all had been hustled through the assembly line. On one key measure, the Senate voted in the absence of 30 members, most of whom had left to fight home-state campaign battles. Lamenting the proportionate absence of deliberation on the Senate floor, Vermont Republican George Aiken remarked: "I've never seen the Senate act more irresponsibly...
...suit the company confidently expected to win. Even though Mrs. Clark had to file her suit in her home state of New Hampshire, the company well knew that in choice-of-law conflicts, New Hampshire courts had long followed the law of "the place where the injury occurred." And Vermont is one of the 28 states with a "guest statute," holding that a "host" driver is liable to his "guest" passengers only if their injuries are caused by his "gross and willful negligence." In New Hampshire, which has no guest statute, a guest may recover if his injuries are caused...
...June night in 1964, Albert Clark of Lancaster, N.H., was driving his wife to a bowling alley in Littleton, N.H. Although the towns are only 15 miles apart, the best road between them swings into Vermont, where Clark had an accident in which his wife was injured. Which law governed - that of Vermont or New Hampshire...
...Clark's case, said Kenison, "our rule is preferable to that of Vermont. The automobile guest statutes were enacted in about half the states, in the 1920s and early 1930s, as a result of vigorous pressures by skillful proponents," meaning insurance companies...
Spur from Subsidy. Today's atomic installations go up in units large enough to light whole cities, or even states. At Lake Keowee, S.C., Duke Power Co. is building a $157 million plant with Babcock & Wilcox reactors that will generate 1,664,000 kw.-enough for South Dakota, Vermont and Nevada. Commonwealth Edison is busy expanding its Dresden plant 50 miles southwest of Chicago into an 1,800,000-kw. complex capable of serving a population equal to that of Baltimore and San Francisco combined. As an increasing number of power companies do, Atlantic City Electric, Philadelphia Electric, Delmarva...