Word: vt
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Pincus also discussed the enormous influence the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has on "its direction and tone," and said had Sen. John D. Sparkman (D-Ala) or Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt) chaired the committee during the Vietnam years, it would never have "taken on the administration" the way it did under Fulbright's leadership...
Charles P. Smith '75 of Winthrop House, who ran as an Independent, captured the vote for state representative in a two-member district in Burlington, Vt. Republican William C. Mullins '75 of Eiot House won his bid for state representative to the 48th Middlesex district in Massachusetts. Republican David C. Boch '74 of Eliot House lost his bid for the state representative sear in the 17th Norfolk district in Massachusetts...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by seeing him off on his latest trip to the Middle East (see THE WORLD). He lobbied scores of Congressmen on the eve of their campaign recess. He held his third press conference as President. He spoke at Republican campaign dinners in Burlington, Vt., Philadelphia and Detroit...
...very few papers stayed with the President to the end. One of these was the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, whose editorial-page editor, Franklin B. Smith, recalled that Nixon had "served far beyond the call of duty to make this a better land, but the American people-horribly misled by a national press which mouthed freedom but practiced license -rejected greatness through means which disgraced everything for which this nation used to stand...
Frost owned a succession of farms in Vermont; during the winter he lived in Boston and later in Cambridge. He was a "halfway farmer," although the half sometimes got out of hand-as when in 1940 it became necessary to eat outdoors at Frost's Ripton, Vt, farm because he had installed a tribe of 100 baby chicks in his kitchen. Eventually a way of life worked itself out: Frost allowed Kathleen Morrison and her husband (then director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference) to live summers in the Ripton farmhouse while the poet moved to a nearby cabin during...