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Scandal has spread to that bastion of model morality, the Boy Scouts of America. Last week the organization acknowledged that leaders in at least ten local councils had ignored the Scout oath to be "mentally awake and morally straight," and padded their membership rolls with tentfuls of nonexistent boys...
...President Nixon refuses to resign and digs in to fight impeachment, the sizable minority of Americans who want him to continue in office is solidifying into a loyalist bastion that is supporting him with growing determination. According to the latest poll conducted for TIME by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., Americans are becoming increasingly polarized, with 53% wanting Nixon out of office and 38% wanting him to stay...
Pennypacker, which has been referred to by many bitter freshmen as a "bastion of jocks", was officially declared the runaway winner of the freshman intramural sports competition yesterday...
...that great sports mecca of the East, Princeton University, there exists a magical playground for all of the student sports enthusiasts to romp in--Jadwin Gymnasium. This bastion of athletic endeavors, complete with its multitudinous underground squash and handball courts, wrestling rooms, weight rooms and soccer fields represents one of the greatest excesses ever perpetrated on the sport world...
...freshman congressman from New York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a distance. Together they have established a conservative bastion to prevent its spread north. In 1970 the district elected a leftwing Democrat, John G. Dow '27, only because his Republican opponent was indicted for income tax evasion towards the end of the campaign. But in 1972, Gilman took advantage of Nixon's solid trouncing of McGovern in the district...