Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes a good country restaurant worth the trip? Basically, skillfully prepared food, an excellent selection of wines and attentive service-plus one magic ingredient: setting. Whether the restaurant is placed among dark spruce and silver birch beside a mountain stream in Vermont (Manchester's Toll Gate Lodge) or beneath giant pecans and live oaks in Texas (Salado's Stagecoach Inn), it offers a view and a personality that its city cousins can never match...
...idea that the bar is responsible for the financial misdeeds of its members originated in New Zealand in 1929 and soon spread to Europe. The concept did not reach the U.S., home of the richest lawyers on earth, until 1959, when the Vermont Bar Association put up the money to start a clients' security fund. About the same time, the American Bar Association organized a committee "to assist and encourage" similar funds in the other states. The current committee chairman, Attorney Karl C. Williams of Rockford, Ill., reports that four newcomers-Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Florida-have joined...
...naturalistic comedy," akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...even the U.S. Senate could fathom all the intricacies of the bill's formula. "I think the Senator is partly mixed up with the next amendment to be discussed," said Delaware Republican John Williams last week during the final debate. Replied Vermont Republican George Aiken: "I am thoroughly mixed up, not partly...
...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...