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Political orientation seems to make no difference. Greece, ruled by a right-wing military dictatorship, is reeling from a 33% inflation?the worst in Europe. Conservative Switzerland, long regarded as a bastion of financial prudence, registers an almost 12% annual inflation. In the Communist world, government control of the economy makes most price figures meaningless, but one nation?Yugoslavia?maintains a market system, and there, prices are zooming at the rate of 22% a year...
Only 2½ years ago, the future of Taiwan, last bastion of Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, seemed gloomy indeed. Within a few months of the mainland's opening outward with Ping Pong diplomacy, tiny Taiwan found itself practically isolated. It was expelled from the U.N. and lost the recognition of 33 of 68 countries, including such important allies as Japan and Australia. But since those dark days, the island of 16 million has not only survived, it has prospered...
When hockey and football can't seem to crack the old Eli bastion in New Haven, leave the cracking to us, Tom Sanders might tell you. His Crimson cagers did everything but maul the walls of Gothic Payne Whitney Gymnasium with a battering ram last night, strewing the hardwood with shattered Yale strategies and sweeping to an easy 87-65 victory...
With their backs against the walls of moral virtue, the censors are prepared for a knock-down-drag-out fight, which I expect will last for years to come. They've no choice, from their viewpoint, for this is the last bastion. It will do civil libertarians no good to cry "But if we censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, free expression in the arts." The censors will cry equally plaintively, "But if we don't censor here, where will it stop? Today, Deep Throat, tomorrow, the destruction of our civilization." As befits a subject with...
...opening match, Hofstra, a Long Island bastion of matmen, got off to a slow start. Harvard's Dan Blakinger grabbed a quick win at 118 lbs. by contorting his opponent for over ten points...