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...healthy-looking and cheerful George Wallace, 54, was on a sojourn in a bastion of what he has called the pointyheads who can't park a bicycle straight: New York City. After accepting a Freedom Award from the right-wing Order of Lafayette, Wallace visited his doctor, Ling Sun Chu, a Manhattan internist, then taped a program for Barbara Walters' TV series, Not for Women Only. The subject: the acupuncture treatments he has received from Dr. Chu to ease discomfort caused by his paralyzed legs. Perhaps conscious that a Chinese medical technique might seem exotic to Middle Americans...
...minorities are the life-blood of Cambridge--blacks, landlords, the rich, Italians, students, the poor, Catholics, intellectuals, etc. Since each minority is equally unpopular and equally strident in its demands for a share of political power, PR remains in Cambridge, its last pure bastion in the country...
British government officials are given to self-righteous declarations that Britain remains the classic bastion of tolerance and racial acceptance. "There can be few countries which have absorbed this great mixture of nationalities with so much tension and so little friction," Home Secretary Robert Carr told Parliament in June. "I do not believe that the British people react well to being constantly hectored and criticized over admitted failures when their record of tolerance is so basically good...
...September issue of Ms, the Women's Lib organ suggested that NASA is a male-chauvinist bastion that has barred qualified women from competing for berths as astronauts. Whatever the truth of that charge, the space agency is apparently moving closer to the day when women will be allowed to fly in space. NASA this week is completing tests on a dozen women at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., to determine how females respond to the physiological stresses of spaceflight...
...Even though Switzerland has a reputation as a bastion of democracy, it seemed not entirely surprising that the country should have laws restricting Jesuits. After all, Geneva was once the home of Protestant Reformer John Calvin's stern theocracy, and the Jesuits (TIME, April 23) became a sort of spiritual Marine Corps to spearhead the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation...