Word: bastioned
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...even though their Democratic opponents "outsegged" them; in Virginia's 1965 gubernatorial race, moderate Republican Linwood Holton lost to Democrat Mills Godwin, a hardline white supremacist who shifted his stance to court Negro votes. Last week the move toward moderation manifested itself for the first time in that bastion of the white South, Mississippi...
...Vietnamese MIGs and flak, the longer grew Colonel Robin Olds's mustache -an exuberant pair of chestnut handlebars that sprouted ever more proudly through 152 missions and four confirmed Communist kills. Now Olds, 45, has been reassigned Stateside as commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy, a bastion of U.S. military tradition that forbids "wives, horses or mustaches" to cadets. Olds sought a face-saving clemency from the Commander-in-Chief, appealing that general Air Force rules permit mustaches that are "closely and neatly trimmed." But L.B.J. refused to be drawn into the thicket of regulations...
...picture nonetheless remains a hysterical hybrid of cinema and opera, a Chinese fever dream of Madame Butterfly when she was just a caterpillar. Still, it is a heartening affirmation that Hong Kong is holding out against the gongs and tongs of its mainland enemies. In their island bastion, Producer Run Run Shaw and his sibling Run Me grind out 40 such Chinese films a year, have become so successful that they now own the biggest show-business empire in Asia. Their movies may be tragedies, but with 132 movie houses and seven amusement parks, the Shaws continue to enjoy...
Part of the reason lies in the vast areas of countryside they still control. The countryside is what Mao Tse-tung called "the true bastion of iron" for a revolutionary and guerrilla war, and from that bastion, particularly the populous, rice-rich Delta, comes food for the ten or so North Vietnamese divisions fighting south of the DMZ as well as fresh recruits for the V.C. main-force units. V.C. women assemble hand grenades in jungle factories, stitch uniforms, care for the wounded. Small boys dig trenches and bunkers, carry messages, build booby traps and learn to throw an occasional...
...Cache of Insights. For all the heavy fighting and numerous Allied victories of the past two years, progress in wresting that green bastion away from the Viet Cong has been painfully slow ?and some of that progress has recently been undone by the necessity of freeing U.S. Marines from the day-today chores of pacification so that they can face North Vietnamese regulars newly active in the DMZ. The South Vietnamese government's guess?and it is admittedly only that?is that 60% of the national population is now "under government control," up from a little more than...