Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fodder gathered last fall before the Soviet tests, and their milk is still low in radioactivity. But Southern cows are already grazing on green grass, and the spring fallout that has collected on it is passing into their milk. As spring moves north and the grass greens up in Vermont and Wisconsin, the radioactivity of Northern milk will increase...
...purpose of the campaign, Hughes says, is to inject the issue of peace into political debate. Kowalski in Connecticut and Meyer in Vermont will be doing the same thing, but the Hughes effort will probably get the most national attention. Professor Hughes after all is running as an independent candidate for the two remaining years of the Senate seat which used to belong to the President--a seat which the President's brother, the Speaker's nephew, and the ex-Senator's son also covet. There is no incumbent and no presidential race to blur the issues. If Hughes gets...
...Congress last week: > The Senate gave the U.N. a convincing vote of confidence by authorizing President Kennedy to provide the hard-pressed organization with up to $100 million for its operations in the Congo and the Middle East. The 70-22 vote ended three months of argument in which Vermont's internationalist Republican Senator George Aiken led opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits the President to do either. Hero of the occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none...
...politics in dozens of states. In 44 states, legislative districting systems permit less than 40% of the population to elect a majority of the legislature; in 13 states a third or less of the population can elect legislative majorities. Many state constitutions make no provision at all for redistricting (Vermont has not reapportioned its lower house since 1793), and 15 states have ignored constitutional requirements to redistrict periodically...
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