Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orange Scintilla. A few pinpoints of light shone through the all-enveloping shroud. Many areas of Vermont, with nearly 30 individual utility companies, withstood the tide. New Hampshire went black in only two heavily populated western sections. The Lake Placid, N.Y., resort area was saved by the grandiloquently named Paul Smith's Electric Light & Power & Railroad Co. A local generator kept New Haven, Conn., aglow. Such isolated Massachusetts communities as Holyoke, Braintree and Taunton never lost a watt, and windswept Nantucket Island, 30 miles off Cape Cod, kept going with a private power system installed...
...back to America." Mrs. Barbara Soames was also delighted at what the flag was leaving behind for her: the $15,120 paid for the rare bunting, a modified Old Glory made about 1795, with 15 six-pointed stars and 15 stripes to represent the original colonies and newly admitted Vermont and Kentucky. The faded flag had been among the English Calverts for generations. Last week, with a fine blend of loyalty and public relations, Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, bought the flag at a Sotheby's auction in London to return to the colonies...
Upstate New York was, along with Maine and Vermont, once the most rock-ribbed Republican part of the nation. A map of even the 1936 Presidential election shows one big Republican swath from Buffalo to Bangor. But Upstate has changed since the '30's. Its proportion of Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholics has been rising, and these are just the ethnic groups that have been the backbone of Democratic surges since 1950 in states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Michigan--states that were predominantly Republican...
...change had also taken place inside the ring. In the past, the only people who could compete were those who had grown up to the sound of the huntsman's bugle. No longer. Among the children in the show were the daughters of a Vermont district commissioner and a Pennsylvania farmer...
Officials in New York, Vermont and Illinois, however, foresaw no immediate need for drafting undergraduates. "If the present build-up continues" Col. Francis Woodworth of Illinois said, "we'll have to find more manpower somewhere, and the boards have already started tightening up on deferment. But we don't look for any wholesale reclassification...