Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermont dropped a tax for local elections earlier this year...
...Meanwhile, other state legislatures are showing interest in having lotteries of their own. New York's legislature has approved one; voters will pass on it in the fall. New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes was unable to get an income tax through, is now considering a lottery bill. Vermont...
...Desperate." Prouty, 59, a flinty, former small-town mayor from upstate Vermont, has been trying for years to get his pet project passed into law. Last week, armed with an impressive array of statistics and endorsements for his amendment, he argued that many retired citizens-notably schoolteachers, farmers and policemen-are in desperate financial straits because they never qualified for social security. "The poverty program," he said, "benefits 50,000 young people in the prime of life. The Prouty amendment benefits 1.5 million older Americans in their dim and often desperate years...
Watching TV during the last few weeks, Americans saw the spectacle of a half circle of rumpled men on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Chairman William Fulbright peering over his spectacles like a country-store sage, Oregon's Wayne Morse flailing a limp arm, Vermont's George Aiken beaming avuncularly for the cameras-all of them questioning or baiting Administration witnesses and, through the witnesses, Lyndon Johnson. In the end only five Senators voted against tabling a motion rescinding the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, which had authorized the President to take all necessary action in Southeast Asia...
Advanced though it is, the Second Circuit's decision is binding only in federal cases in New York, Connecticut and Vermont. There is still considerable confusion elsewhere in the country, although three other circuit courts have already adopted similar tests. Until the Supreme Court is induced to set a national standard-something jurists fervently hope it will now do-there will still be widely varying decisions on whether to send a disturbed defendant to prison or to a mental hospital...