Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, no Vermont probate court records any evidence of Mallet's millions-or indeed of his ever having lived in Vermont.* The U.S. Treasury also claims that it knows nothing of this vast estate, now worth $512 million, which it is supposed to be holding in trust for the rightful heirs. Such professions of ignorance do not deceive Princess Hélène Favraud Ayoubi, 45, widow of a self-styled Iraqi emir and president of the World Union of Mallet Heirs, which is dedicated to recovering the legacy. Nor was she overly fazed last week when...
...relatives ever since she set up the union in 1957, their common ancestor was one of 13 children of a poor Limousin farmer who fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution and was rewarded by a grateful Continental Congress with a huge farm in Vermont. He multiplied his fortune by 1) discovering oil in Vermont, 2) marrying a Creole beauty whose Louisiana father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After his death, his property was expropriated by President Andrew Jackson as compensation for Napoleon's blockade of the U.S. during...
Three skiers from Harvard and one from Radcliffe skied and placed in the Saturday races of the Louise Orvis Slalom Derby, held over the weekend at Big Bromley Vermont...
...Vermonters can seldom be taken for granted. In last week's special election, Democrats not only failed to make the major gains they expected in the house; their strength even dropped a fraction to 23%. In the senate, Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending...
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Vermont, Connecticut) rejected Cone's claim that his confession was inadmissible under Escobedo because he was not warned of his rights although the arresting customs agents had reached the accusatory stage-in short, the time when they felt they had their man. By a vote of 7 to 1, the court bypassed Escobedo and ruled instead that Cone's admissions were purely voluntary...