Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court. In all, he argued 32 civil rights cases before the high court, won 29 of them. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Marshall to a lifetime job on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). After almost a year's delay because of the objections of Southern Senators, the Senate finally confirmed Marshall's appointment...
This version of heaven was the Marlboro Festival, an event that for 15 years has been attracting an international group of artists to an 18th century ghost town in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Hogback. The festival began when the trustees of tiny (128 students) Marlboro College offered its campus to some of its musical neighbors, most celebrated among them Pianist Rudolf Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from...
...most of the week fighting off efforts to broaden coverage. Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff came up with a $180 million plan to give free, unlimited hospitalization to the aged to protect them against "the crushing economic burden of catastrophic illness." He lost but by a narrow 43-39 vote. Vermont Republican Winston Prouty wanted to raise the minimum social-security retirement benefit to $70 but lost, 79 to 12. One $500 million-a-year addition was approved, however: West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd's proposal allowing workers to retire at 60 instead of 62 with two-thirds...
Money & Truth. Discovered last April 27 among the papers of Royall Tyler, an unsuccessful suitor of John's daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became...
...diary, published in four with is autobiography 1961, had been thought to be complete, but the Adams had kept yet journal, this one shorter even less systematic than of his others. And this , uncovered among the of the Vermont Judge who wooed Adam's daughter, is earliest one scholars have looked most likely the first diary ever kept...