Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly one-half of the U.S.'s 42,429 school systems have no public high schools. The shortcoming is most often met by sending students to another district; but in Vermont such high-school-shy systems have since 1915 been allowed to send children to private schools, including Roman Catholic high schools...
When a South Burlington taxpayer named C. Raymond Swart (who has no school age children) sued to enjoin the school board from paying tuition to three Catholic high schools, the Vermont State...
...This bill does not have a snowball's chance in hell," wailed a House Democratic leader. Echoed Vermont's George Aiken, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee: "If the Administration persists on this plan, there will be no bill this year." Work was still going on at the committee level in Congress last week, but Democrats and Republicans in both branches of Congress were already predicting a smashing defeat for one of President Kennedy's major items of legislation: a costly, catchall farm bill...
...political power is a dramatic example of a problem plaguing much of the U.S. In state after state, assembly and senate are still chosen under constitutional provisions drawn decades and even generations ago, when the rural population was bigger than the urban. As a result, one rural vote in Vermont is now equal to 600 city votes in choosing a state senator; the Connecticut hamlet of Union (pop. 383) has one representative v. the two allowed the capital of Hartford; and Los Angeles County (pop. 5,979,203) can send only one man to sit in a state senate...
Charles Knowles' Psalm Book deserves special commendation since it was executed in its entirety by a boy of eighteen. Knowles was a senior at the Putney School, Vermont, when he learned that he had only a year to live. In the time remaining to him, he illustrated and printed ten copies of this remarkably competent book...