Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House turnabout resulted from a partisan congressional mood brought on by the approaching elections; the bill picked up some Democratic supporters who were irked by the solid Republican opposition. But no one thought its passage had rid the U.S. of its farm scandal. Said Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken ,as he emerged from the House-Senate conference that agreed to the final version: "Well, I can't solve the farm problem, so I'm going over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cuba's easier...
...Nose to Nose." Vermont Republican Winston L. Prouty. who cast the lone Senate vote against the resolution, charged that it "does not even face up to the Cuban problem. It reminds me of the resolve from King Lear that goes...
...Carolina's Olin Johnston, the Senate confirmed the appointment of a controversial Negro to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is Thurgood Marshall, 54, longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has been sitting as a Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) judge since his nomination by President Kennedy a year ago. The Senate vote was 54 to 16, with all the nays coming from Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas...
Shirley Jackson is a kind of Virginia Werewoolf among the seance-fiction writers. By day, amiably disguised as an embattled mother, she devotes her artful talents to the real-life confusions of the four small children (Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons) in her Vermont household. But when shadows fall and the little ones are safely tucked in, Author Jackson pulls down the deadly nightshade and is off. With exquisite subtlety she then explores a dark world (The Lottery, Hangsaman, The Haunting of Hill House} in which the usual brooding old houses, fetishes, poisons, poltergeists and psychotic females take...
When grave national issues are involved, Everett Dirksen is not a partisan." In a flood of oratory, Republican after Republican rose to toss bouquets toward Dirksen. Vermont's George Aiken praised his fairness and courage. California's Thomas Kuchel his unselfishness and erudition...