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...wear sport coats instead of suits. Xerox insists on tonsorial tidiness, but it has permitted one of its California service technicians to affect a handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready for the Nehru jacket...
Zurich, Switzerland's largest city (pop. 440,000), is such a bastion of Zwinglian virtues and respect for law and order that unkind observers say it would resemble a graveyard, if only it were a little livelier. The thought of public violence in Zurich is utterly improbable. Yet last week there were student riots right in downtown Zurich- and they were just as violent as anything seen recently on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or on the Columbia University campus...
...thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...
...carried every one of Omaha's 14 wards. He ran ahead in 88 of the state's 93 counties. Even in Lancaster County, home of the University of Nebraska and a putative McCarthy bastion, Kennedy lost by only two votes. McCarthy had entered a full slate of committed delegate candidates, while Kennedy was unable to match him, having entered the race after the filing deadline. Kennedy was therefore forced to line up uncommitted candidates and conduct an advertising campaign to identify them to the electorate. Picking and choosing among 75 unfamiliar names, the voters gave him at least...
Laundry List. In Nebraska, McCarthy's campaign machine is somewhat ramshackle. He is widely unknown among Nebraskans, and until this week had made only four appearances in the state. Bobby, by contrast, is almost too familiar in the Republican bastion that gave Nixon his largest margin against John Kennedy in 1960. Headed by Ted Sorensen's brother Philip, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor, Kennedy's team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled...