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...called the church "a bastion for male leadership and domination," and he said that this domination was "a theological problem in the deepest sense of the word...
Williams attacked the science center as a bastion of the scientific technology which seeks to control and repress "basic human social and political rights." The slogan: Polaroid + ID equals Fascism was pinted on the walls of the center...
Bordered by quietly elegant homes and supported by a highly exclusive membership, the West Side Tennis Club of Forest Hills, N.Y., is a bastion of bourgeois gentility. Last week its manicured grounds were savaged by an intruder from the socialist East, a lank-haired and slightly mad lieutenant of the Rumanian army named Ilie Nastase, 26. Flying about the grass courts like an impassioned Gypsy dancer, Nastase came from behind to defeat Arthur Ashe of Richmond 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 and win the U.S. Open championship. His reward: a check...
Kosters sees controls as a kind of collapsible boat, to be used in an emergency, then folded up and put away completely. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, the bastion of Milton Friedman's extreme free-market economics. And that, Kosters observes dryly, "leaves no one unmarked." He worked for five years for the Rand Corp., later for the Council of Economic Advisers, and then the Labor Department until Nixon started the COLC...
Extra Prize. Israeli strategists had endorsed the plan on the grounds that such a settlement would give their country ample security. The southern Sinai would in effect be turned into an Israeli military bastion; the strategic military installations built there since 1967 would be left intact. From their southern stronghold, the Israelis could maintain a defensive radar watch over the area returned to the Egyptians, including the Suez Canal. The Israelis would also be left in full control of the Sinai...