Word: vermont
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Time Off for Families. Similarly, in the Senate, Republicans put up Vermont's George Aiken for president pro tempore. In nominating Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...
Elah, wherever it may be in Vermont, and with smooth stones vanquish all the philistine forces of evil which either threaten or jeopardize this Republic." Whereupon the Senate re-elected Carl Hayden as president pro tempore...
Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...
Other parts of New England report similar weather conditions. Increasing cloudiness with temperatures ranging from zero to ten degrees is expected in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont...
...abolished outright because they are either undermanned, undertrained or outmoded. McNamara is seeking the required approval of Governors involved to downgrade, for similar reasons, four National Guard infantry divisions-the 34th of Iowa and Nebraska, the 35th of Kansas and Missouri, the 43rd of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the 51st of Florida and South Carolina. Those outfits (authorized division strength: 13,500) would be regrouped into 3,300-man brigades. Further, 1,800 smaller Guard and reserve units would be disbanded because they are dead weight-among them, crews of vintage 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, now useless against...