Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed a sad commentary on the future of federal buildings if their design is to be dictated by the Washington lobbies of building-materials trades. Imagine the final structure-a composite of Indiana limestone, California redwood, Vermont marble, Montana copper, Oregon Douglas fir and Rhode Island brick. Add one flight of New Hampshire granite steps so that the whole may be recognized as "monumental...
...residents of New England are the least likely to kill one another. Vermont, with a homicide rate of 0.5 per 100,000 in 1952 (six deaths), has the most tranquil record...
...Firearms are accountable for slightly more than half of the nation's deaths by homicide, cutting and piercing instruments for a quarter, miscellaneous means for the rest. Gun-toting Wyoming and South Dakota polished off 87% of their homicide victims by bullets in 1952. Vermonters, on the other hand, prefer hammers, knives and iron bars: Vermont was the only state to report no homicides by firearms...
...five-day Triumphant Kingdom Assembly, the fifth of eleven Witness assemblies that will take place throughout the world this year, heard the imminence of Armageddon preached in flower-decked Yankee Stadium, spent their spare time making door-to-door efforts to convert "pagan" New Yorkers. Meanwhile, their brethren in Vermont decided to abandon plans to use Burlington's Memorial Auditorium for a meeting in October after veterans' groups, bristling at the Witnesses' refusal to salute the flag or bear arms, threatened to throw up a "human chain" around the auditorium to keep them...
Leader of the U.S. A large part of the new U.S. mood is the enormous confidence of the American people in the President. The phenomenon was given sharp illustration last week as Mr. Eisenhower toured through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, meeting the people, eating barbecued chicken, fishing in New England streams, and being plied with gifts of heifers, chickens, trees, shirts, boots, a red knit cap, a chain saw and a sculptured tablet of granite. As he moved through dairy country, where his Administration's farm program had sharply cut federal subsidies, farmers stood by the roadside...