Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face might have been carved out of a Vermont hillside (and may yet be carved into one). No man seemed more natively American. "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit," said President Kennedy. But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old, with his life nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British. For those 40 years, he was an isolated man. isolated physically on a bleak farm in New-England, isolated poetically as he slowly worked out his grindstone-plain style...
Youthfully quickstepping out of a regional conference in Boston were six New England Governors, two Republicans and four Democrats, averaging only 42⅓ years in age. There was Rhode Island Republican John H. Chafee, 40, New Hampshire Democrat John W. King, 44, Maine Republican John H. Reed, 42, Vermont Democrat Philip H. Hoff, 38, Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey, 48, and Massachusetts Democrat Endicott Peabody, 42. All but Reed and Dempsey are newcomers elected last fall (Hoff became Vermont's first Democratic Governor in 109 years). With a vigah befitting their years, the six agreed to ask their legislatures...
...Vermont Democrat Philip Hoff, 38, first Governor of his party in Vermont since 1854, went before a state legislature ruled 4 to 1 by Republicans. Hoff played it cagey. Promising the legislators a "new and fresh approach," he thereupon suggested that they adjourn...
...sale" ad ran in the Saturday Review: "Robert Frost house. Shaftsbury, Vermont. 150-year-old Cape Cod. Three fireplaces. 150 acres. Studio. Barn. Small pond. Spectacular view. $27,500." Poet Frost, 88, suffering from blood clots and now in a Boston hospital, has not lived in the house since 1939, after his wife died and he turned it over to his daughter-in-law and grandson, Naval Architect William Prescot Frost. Since moving to Oregon, they decided to sell the house where the venerable poet had lived for nearly 20 years. The buyer: a doctor -a "longtime Frost fan"-from...
Town & Gown. Playing an increasing role as cultural centers in their communities, colleges are sponsoring lectures open to town as well as gown, and now account for at least 50% of the business handled by the three nationwide lecture bureaus. At Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., last week, Vermont's ex-Governor Sherman Adams, a veteran of six years of power and pillory as Eisenhower's "Assistant President." gave his appraisal of the pressures on a U.S. President: "Great decisions are not the result of popular mandate, but of presidential judgment. It is the President's duty...