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...that the G.O.P. must recover if it is, at best, to close up the House gap on Democrats or, at worst, to forestall a Democratic landslide. Last week TIME correspondents traveled through the Midwest, reported on issues and outlook. Their major conclusion: far from booming back in their traditional bastion, Republicans are fighting desperately to hold their own on a bloody political battleground. The facts behind the findings...
...Kansas Republicans cannot knock out Democratic Governor George Docking next month, this traditionally Republican prairie bastion may be in for a long Democratic siege. In Parsons Publisher Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, the G.O.P. has its best chance to do it. Reed bears an illustrious Republican name: his father was Kansas Governor (1929-31) and longtime (1939-49) U.S. Senator. Well-known and liked, Clyde Reed Jr. has already restored party morale by the rude primary pasting he handed ex-Governor Fred Hall last spring, the same Fred Hall who went down-rejected by major party leaders-in the primary...
...perhaps the strongest bastion against destruction of the Southern public school system is the peculiar moderation of many politicians such as Faubus. It is the moderation of inertia and short-sightedness. Even as they failed to make the schools equal, in order to keep them separate, so they now will probably fail to follow their rhetoric to its logical consequences...
From a strategic point of view, the targets that Red China's gunners worked over were not worth anything like the ammunition expended. Even if all of them fell into Red hands, the Nationalist bastion of Formosa, about 120 miles to the east, would still be screened by the Pescadores Islands (see map). But the Nationalist garrisons of the offshore islands mock Mao Tse-tung on his very doorstep. (Tatan and Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under...
King Hussein did not stay locked in his palace. Once, he flew over the city in a helicopter. Another time he visited the airport where some 3,000 British paratroops represent his final bastion of strength. The young King rode in his bulletproof Cadillac surrounded by nine soldier-filled Land Rovers topped with machine guns. The motorcade sped through streets closed to all other traffic and along a route lined with Legionnaires armed with Tommy guns. As the King stood at attention watching a parade of red-bereted paratroops, a bomb went off in the city behind him-the seventh...