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...fair, like the Carlsbad Caverns, the Little Bighorn battle site and the Newfane (Vt.) Inn, is worth a visit if you happen to be in the neighborhood. The locals who live within easy distance of Flushing Meadow by subway, train or highway keep going back there and to date have actually outnumbered tourists at the turnstiles. In any case, it takes at least several trips to sample the top attractions. Some of them are even worth the long wait in line...
...came to some surprising conclusions: that William Bradford (an ancestor) had aimed the Mayflower at New England, not Virginia, as historians supposed, and that Captain John Smith (no kin) was indeed saved by Pocahontas, a tale long suspected as too tall to be true; of cancer; in Shaftsbury, Vt...
...candidate was a Dodger, a well-known Dodger, and he was dodging the accusations made by Vermont Bricklayer Rene Morin, 51, that he, Leo Durocher, 57, had stolen the heart of Morin's wife Anna, 51. The original Lip was curled up on the witness stand in Middlebury, Vt., during Morin's $150,000 alienation-of-affections suit. "I respect and admire Mrs. Morin," grated Leo, giving the ump his side of the story. But the girl "I am very, very much in love with" is Morin's daughter...
...polish to man; why then should it not bestow charms on women?" Pioneer Educator Emma Willard 150 years ago answered her own question with energy and decision. As farmers jeered ("They'll be educating the cows next"), she started a school for girls in her home in Middlebury, Vt. A few years later she moved her classes to a remodeled coffee house in Troy, N.Y., and set up the school as a Female Seminary, where young ladies learned such novelties as science, philosophy, literature, foreign languages and history...
...Aiken (Vt.) Javits (N.Y.) Allott (Colo.) Keating (N.Y.) Beall (Md.) Miller (Iowa) Bennett (Utah) Kuchel (Calif.) Boggs (Del.) Morton (Ky.) Carlson (Kans.) Mundt (S.Dak.) Case (N.J.) Pearson (Kans.) Cooper (Ky.) Prouty (Vt.) Dirksen (III.) Saltonstall (Mass.) Fong (Hawaii) Scott...