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Last weekend's encouraging protests in New York and San Francisco prompted White House press secretary George Christian to volunteer the information that the F.B.I -- never quite a bastion of free speech -- is closely watching such activity. Still worse, Secretary Rusk, who in the past has confined his Red-baiting to every variety of leftist abroad, charged on nationwide television that "Communists" were rather active in the anti-war demonstrations. So were plenty of non-Communist leftists, not to mention thousands of liberal Democrats. Characteristically, the Secretary ignored events and facts that would have dulled his noxious appeal...
...everything that concerned Harvard, but he concentrated his attention on a number of special areas. For many years he was deeply concerned with Harvard's libraries, and he was a generous and continuing contributor of books as well as money. He always insisted that the University must be a bastion of civil liberties, and he did not hedge on this conviction even at the height of the McCarthy...
...some of the fans cared. One Cliffie said, "It's just shoddy. Harvard's bastion of tradition is breaking its best tradition." Another student didn't seem to care. "Lauren who?" he said...
Hurled from a Perch. Once a bastion guarding the shipping lanes of the Empire, barren, steamy Aden today has commercial value only as a bunkering port at the entrance to the Red Sea (the colony has oil refineries but no known oil). Last year the British bowed to nationalist demands and announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to a South Arabian federation of Aden and 16 neighboring sheikdoms. The concession only heated up the long-smoldering terrorism. From the fanatical National Liberation Front to the moderate South Arabian League, each nationalist faction tried to outdo the other...
...just a tail to it; something that wasn't a copy and yet followed the function." He took three years to brood before the public got its first look at his model. It turned out to be neither modern nor Renaissance but massively medieval, a bastion for books that seemed to echo H. H. Richardson's Trinity Church across Copley Square. But Johnson had bound his new addition with the old through a variety of formal devices: a common cornice line, an identically pitched roof, equally deepset windows. Johnson even plans to reopen a quarry in Milford, Mass...