Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandt went to the national convention with the endorsement of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont for the regional vice-chairmanship. Shepherd Spunt of Brookline received the recommendation of two states recently captured by the conservative politicos--Rhode Island and Connecticut. The YRNF had appointed Spunt "regional director" for New England three years ago, but he had performed so badly that Massachusetts YR's refused to elect him a delegate to either of the last two conventions. Nevertheless, with the national chairman's backing, he won the convention over Brandt, who was tagged as an associate of the liberal Ripon...
...Havemeyer was not quite an ordinary little girl. The daughter of Multimillionaire Sugar Refiner Henry O. Havemeyer, she was mar ried in 1910 to J. Watson Webb, a polo-playing great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Webb eventually inherited a house and spacious tract of land by the verdant Vermont shores of Lake Champlain. It seemed to be just the place to house Electra's collection of dolls, dollhouses - and, in fact, of every last thingumajig and whatchamacallit ever made in early America. In 1947, Mrs. Webb bought eight acres of land near the estate to create the Shelburne...
Married. George David Aiken, 74, five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont; and Lola Pierotti, fiftyish, his administrative assistant; he for the second time (his first wife died last year), she for the first; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; at Fort Myer...
...attempts to brand Israel the aggressor and strip away all of its gains, U.S. policymakers are looking toward the future-far into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable and secure existence." Only then, he added, can they "count upon...
Edward Dodd '30 met Sione on an anthropological expedition to Tonga. He realized the young rugby star's intellectual talent and sponsored Sione's way through the Putney School in Putney, Vermont...