Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine states, from Vermont to Washington, primary elections last week proved very little about national trends. In some places more Democrats than usual voted in their party primaries. In most places Senator Joe McCarthy, who once picked himself as 1954's top issue, was no issue at all; the few McCarthyites who reared up were slapped down hard. Notable among nominations for six governorships, five Senate and 92 House seats...
...Vermont Consuelo Northrop Bailey, second woman to be speaker of a U.S. state legislature,* won the G.O.P. nomination and virtual certainty of becoming the nation's first lady lieutenant governor. Tireless Connie Bailey, 54, who first won office (state's attorney) in 1927, drove 23,000 miles to campaign, handily defeated two strong male opponents, former Governor Harold Arthur and Attorney General F. Elliott Barber...
...STYLE INDIFFERENT is an other-directed type. In a Vermont town, interviewers found that the older generation had inner-directed attitudes toward politics; they knew quite a lot; they thought they could influence political causes (and some felt guilty because they did not). The younger generation contained many new-style indifferents, "who know enough about politics to reject it, enough about political information to refuse it, enough about their political responsibilities as citizens to evade them." Riesman believes that more than half the adults in the U.S. are Indifferents-Old Style or New Style...
...only witnesses called last week were newsmen, to testify to the charge that McCarthy had ridiculed and abused fellow Senators, e.g., by describing Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders as "senile" and New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson as "a living miracle in that he is without question the only man in the world who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts." Williams' cross-examination of the newsmen was brief...
...Vermont, the only state in the union without a TV station, set owners have had to depend on uncertain reception from Canada and nearby states. This week Vermont's TV drought ends when Burlington's station WMVT begins broadcasting from a transmitter atop 4,393-ft. Mt. Mansfield...