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...Wage-price guidelines are more acceptable elsewhere. The Cabinet of West Germany, that bastion of free-market economics, is expected to issue a set of guidelines, perhaps this week...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. endorse the multimillionaire Rockefeller while rejecting a former union lawyer and Secretary of Labor. But Goldberg may wind up with the votes of many union members and other workers nevertheless. The General Motors strike has idled 17,000 in the state; on Long Island-a Rockefeller bastion in his first three races-unemployment is at 5.8%, the highest in New York...
...literature at least, it is a blessing that the British Labor Party has not yet succeeded in doing away with that bastion of upper-class pain and privilege, the British public school. From Thomas Hughes to Kipling and Orwell, from Harold Nicolson to Robert Graves and Anthony Powell, a succession of British men of letters have devastatingly recollected in tranquillity the fagging and the field sports, the pleasures of playing up and the dark night of a sensitive soul fallen among rugger-bugger philistines...
...island republic of Singapore recently proclaimed itself "a bastion of resistance to the social pollution of hippies." Last week, after Singapore police arrested three long-haired youths from neighboring Malaysia, the young men were held in jail for 17 hours until they consented to being given short haircuts. A barber was duly fetched, and each of the young Malaysians was required to pay 330 to have his long locks trimmed. When the shorn youths returned home, their countrymen were outraged-and reacted accordingly. The Malaysian government delivered a stern protest note to Singapore's ranking diplomatic representative in Kuala...
...American Medical Association, long under attack by liberals and now by the radical left as an obstacle to medical progress and a bastion of money-minded reaction, displayed a split personality at its annual convention in Chicago last week...