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...Bastion of Belvedere, Cal, and North House (Government), Claire V. Broome of San Anselmo, Cal. and East House (Biochemistry) ?Susan A. Norwood of Burbank, Cal, and East House (Linguistics and Celtic Language); Joan E. Sarnet of Beverly Hills, Cal, and North House (Social Relations...
Consider the University of Alabama, which has long been a bastion of idolized athletes and lionized coaches, pretty coeds, fervent fraternity men and racism. Today, Alabama is aroused−and politicized. An indication of the new mood came on May 6, when a candlelight service was held for the students slain at Kent State. Afterward, there was a march on the mansion of President F. David Mathews, where students demanded a number of parochial changes (self-regulation on hours for women, better food and such). Nothing big by up-North standards, but neither the service nor the march would have...
Brewer has the support of organized labor, a former Wallace bastion. He has gone out of his way to avoid antagonizing the state's crucial 300,000 black voters, and as of now he is slightly favored. Wallace dismisses his opponent as "Sissy Britches," but beneath his cocky exterior he has shown some signs of desperation. Wallaceites recently passed out phony photos showing Brewer greeting Black Muslims Muhammad AH and Elijah Muhammad. Last week Wallace erupted with the puzzling charge that his opponent had piled "evil abuse" on Wallace's dead wife, although Brewer has never mentioned...
...resentment. Yet the pattern varies with the setting. To explore the nuances of black-white relations against different backgrounds, TIME Correspondents Jess Cook and Paul Hathaway toured a fast-changing area of a Northeastern city, a Deep South county with a heavy black majority, and a middle-sized bastion of Middle America...
...Another bastion in Harvard's tradition fell last week when the Freshman Council revealed that Jubilee Weekend has followed the Freshman Smoker to extinction...