Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through it all, the gals decided that the Miss America contestant who was nicest was Jeanne Flinn Swanner, 19, Miss North Carolina. So they elected her Miss Congeniality. She was also the tallest (6 ft. 2 in.); the contest's shortest contestants, Melissa Stafford Hetzel, 21, Miss Vermont, and Flora Jo Chandonnet, 20, Miss Florida (both 5 ft. 3 in.) came barely to her shoulder. But friendliness and size don't win contests. So when the judges brought in their verdict, medium-sized (5 ft. 61 in.), well-deployed (35-23-35), not-quite-so-congenial Donna Axum...
...When he returned to his Washington apartment one night last week, Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken learned that the President of the U.S., the Secretary of State, and several lesser New Frontiersmen had been trying for hours to reach him. Aiken hurriedly put through a call to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The President, said Rusk, wanted Aiken to join the U.S. delegation going to Moscow for this week's formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty (see THE WORLD). The Senator hesitated. "Will I be committed to anything?" he asked. "Will I have to sign...
...MARLBORO FESTIVAL (July 12-Sept. 2) in Vermont is really a sort of busman's holiday for fine musicians. None of the 85 or so instrumentalists are paid; instead, most contribute $625 apiece to meet expenses. Free from concert pressures, the musicians split up into informal chamber music groups and play precisely what they please. The knowledgeable public that attends the weekend concerts does not always know exactly what work will be played, but does know that it will be performed with love, zest, and craftsmanlike precision. There is no cult of personality at Marlboro despite the musical giants...
Formed at the Marlboro Festival is Vermont, the group has played on such major concert series as those of the Library of Congress and the Rockefeller Institute. The concert is open to the public without charge...
...influential Massachusetts Republican: "Goldwater is definitely strengthening. There is a big independent demand for him. I think they're looking for a real other-side-of-the-coin conservative to put up this time. That way they'll settle this liberal-conservative business once and for all." In Vermont, leaders and voters are still for Rocky, but, says G.O.P. State Chairman Theodore Corsones: "Goldwater could make it if he gives the go-ahead signal for a real fight...