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MAYBE a Third World center would be overrun by radicals who would drown out the moderate voices, making it a bastion of separatism Never mind that the very existence of those oh-so-abrasive radical elements suggests the existence of a real problem. Maybe a Third World center isn't the answer to the race relations problem. But the Foundation, as presently constituted, is barely a step in the right direction...
...males, many women and several Blacks figured as producers, D. J's, publicity and managements. When WBOS's new program director, Maxanne Sartori, announced her plan to program more Black music by the end of the summer, the audience cheered. Rock and roll has for so long been a bastion of sexism and racism, its music divided into "white" and "Black" categories, but from the look of this crowd the industry is progressing. The dress code for the day tended toward autre but underneath the mylar and the metal were some sensitive professionals, united by the business...
...aide appeared at the podium around midnight to say the race was too close to call. Some wards were still missing. "If the man don't win, I'm going to hate white folks forever," growled a partisan. Finally the result began to sink in. Chicago, that bastion of segregated neighborhoods and brawling Democratic machinery, had elected a black as mayor. The chants began to mock the racially charged campaign slogan of the white Republican opponent. "We want Harold-before it's too late...
...wind and water have all been hailed as cheap, renewable and benign alternatives to oil, coal and nuclear plants. Now comes a warning from a bastion of environmentalism, the National Audubon Society, that even ecologically favored, so-called solar sources of energy can have serious drawbacks...
...first sign came from the northern provincial capital of Huesca, a traditionally conservative area, where the early returns showed the Socialists well ahead. Next came coastal Pontevedra, a longtime franquista stronghold in Galicia, which the Socialists came surprisingly close to carrying. Then the southern province of Alrneria, another conservative bastion, fell to the Socialists. Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile...