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...paid any attention to the dapper, mustachioed gentleman who joined the members of the men-only Friars Club in Manhattan last week at a stag roast for Sid Caesar. By week's end, however, the officers of the 79-year-old male bastion were trying to forget Phillip Downey, better known as Phyllis Oilier, 65. The idea to crash the party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says...
...Council. What surprises me is why my position was so blatantly misrepresented. I reject the possibility that it was an oversight. rather, I believe, it was a direct and intentional omission of a contrary view. As hard as it may be to believe, there are students in this bastion of liberalism who still value principles such as individual rights and free enterprise. As such a person. I am not asking you to embrace my convictions but only to let your readers know that there are people opposed to the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council. Timothy J. Keating...
...Since 1907, the Oak Room of Manhattan's venerable Plaza Hotel has been an all-male bastion for three hours every weekday at lunchtime. Last week, 15 members of the National Organization for Women, led by that super feminist Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), 47, demanded entrance on the ground that their civil rights were being violated. Five of the ladies actually managed to brush by a Plaza assistant manager and the maitre d' to capture a center table, but the waiters studiously ignored their repeated cries for service, and the ladies were eventually forced to fall back...
...into the evolution of the Negro Leagues, ranges into the famous Robinson break-through with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and finishes up with a detailed a count of the ensuing full integration of the sport, and the bringing up of "Pumpsie" Green in 1959 to the Red Sox, the last bastion of lily whiteness...
...June 1983, some 42,200 Latin American soldiers have received additional training; Panamanian permission for the U.S. to continue running the school was granted only this year. Even though the possibility of moving the school to Honduras has been postponed, American strategists still see the country as a bastion for the U.S. in Central America. That prospect troubles some Hondurans. "In the event of a war, the U.S. will supply the money and the guns, but we will supply the dead and injured," says a businessman in Comayagua. Most Hondurans, however, welcome the U.S. influx. Says an influential banker...