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...Vietnam is not important to us," he said. "Nor is it a bastion of freedom. Nor is it a testing place of democracy. Had it been lost in 1954 no one would now be thinking...
...after it was written, this early satirical distillation of Burgess' comic imagination is worthy of his later (1963) Orwellian Clockwork Orange. A Vision unfolds the misadventures of a mild-mannered sergeant in the British Army Vocational and Cultural Corps who muddles through World War II in the incongruous bastion of imperial Britannia atop the rock of Gibraltar...
...Byrdland, a Democratic bastion ruled by America's most deeply entrenched family oligarchy, the G.O.P. has not won a single statewide elective post since 1926, when young Harry took over the Statehouse as Governor and began consolidating his all-powerful political machine. For that matter, no Republican has been elected Governor since Reconstruction days. Moreover, despite his loosening hold on Virginia politics, Byrd's own conservative followers and dissident middle-road Democrats have closed ranks this year behind Godwin, who won the Democratic nomination by default when no other possible gubernatorial candidates filed for the primary...
...five-mile strip along either side. The new treaty, explained the President, will "effectively recognize Panama's sovereignty over the area of the canal." In fact, when the treaty is signed, probably next year, it will wipe out the old concept of the Canal Zone as a U.S. bastion in Latin America...
Meanwhile New York, bastion of the crawling car and the double-parked truck, is only coping. Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes has seen to it that Manhattan's major north-south streets are going-or will go-one way, and traffic has speeded up about 30%. Last week Barnes finally got permission to begin installing a $100 million system of traffic lights that will get their cues from what sensor-sent messages tell a computer about the flow of traffic...