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...couple of months later. Percy's new opponent was State Treasurer Wil liam Scott, 37, who charged into the campaign avowing his all-out dedication to conservatism and his total support of Barry Goldwater for President. Percy decided to take a chance. Although Illinois was considered a bastion of Barryland, he hedged his commitments to Goldwater. Said Percy: "I have made it clear all along that I am running on state issues. I will cast my ballot for that candidate that has a majority of the elected delegates...
...scholars may take comfort in one constancy of things. One subject card, "Eccentric Literature," remains unmoved, a bastion of the past amid a holey flurry of punched cards and unpunchd candidates for clubs...
People who regard the University as a bastion of visual philistmism may be pleased to learn that Barbara Swan, for the past two years an Associate Scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, has opened a one woman show at Boston's leading gallery...
...dreadful pageant that seems to haunt Novelist-Historian Zoe Oldenbourg began on a hot, still day in 1209, when a French army took the city of Béziers, a bastion of one of history's most romantic territories. The region covered all of present-day southern France. Its palaces were rich in art and dominated by the codes of courtly love. Its tongue was a strange and musical dialect that had given the region a flourishing literature of poetry and was to give it a name-Languedoc (for langue d'oc, literally, the language...
Yesterday, for the first time in two months, I entered Widener, only to find that what some people jocosely term "progress" had swept over this bastion of learning. Gone were the little blue cards I had known and loved! In their place were IBM cards with the pompous instructions, PLEASE WRITE FIRMLY TO MAKE CARBON DO NOT BEND CARD...