Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...
...room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell stuff," he wanted jet rides arranged, and he wanted transportation set up for their departure for Vermont...
...Tuna Fish. St. Petersburg's retired oldtimers know exactly what they want in a newspaper, and it is up to the Times to give it to them. Each day, the paper devotes several columns to bridge, checkers, baseball, club meetings, roque and shuffleboard. The casualty list from a Vermont train wreck will be carried in full; hockey scores from Canada appear regularly; the opening of a new bridge in Philadelphia may not make Pittsburgh papers, but it is likely to appear in the St. Petersburg Times, whose old subscribers come from all over the U.S. and Canada and demand...
...guests-an occupation also survived by Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Herman Wouk and dozens of others-consisted of reciting Shakespeare by the campfire, impersonating Fanny Brice, staging a full-length musical each week, supervising endless Spanish Fiestas and Greenwich Village Frolics. Mr. Axeler's establishment in Vermont was really more a concentration than a summer camp, with the red-shirted boss terrorizing the staff from horseback and always galloping well out of reach when it came time to meet the payroll. The Mad Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced...
Inept Performance. One reason for Mills's decline is that Arkansas (along with Mississippi, Vermont and West Virginia) has declined in population during the 1950s, while the total U.S. population was soaring. In the redistricting that will follow the 1960 census, Arkansas stands to lose two of its six House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist...