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Communist Czechoslovakia, always a bastion of harsh Stalinism while most of Eastern Europe was busy destalinizing, is liberalizing a little. The huge statue of the dead dictator that overlooked Prague is now finally demolished; writers have begun to talk about "an enlarged horizon of freedom"; in Prague's Lucerna Hall dance palace recently, teen-agers rocked the rafters with the Oliver Twist and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in Twist tempo...
...rocks, bottles and bricks the firemen who had rushed to save a white man's store. For more than a month, Negro demonstrations in Birmingham had sputtered, bursting occasionally into flames, then flickering out. Martin Luther King, the Negroes' inspirational but sometimes inept leader, had picked this bastion of racial inequality for the crusade, "because Birmingham is the symbol of segregation." In the last six years, there have been 18 racial bombings (Negroes call it "Bombingham") and more than 50 cross-burnings. Schools are totally segregated. So are restaurants, drinking fountains, toilets. Birmingham gave up its professional baseball...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller was running for President. His state's legislative session was over, a successful speaking trip to the Midwestern hustings had ended, and now Rocky stormed that bastion of political professionalism-Washington, D.C. There, he wowed his fellow Republicans...
Against this versatile onslaught, Eddie never really had a chance. Teddy won every ward in Boston, supposedly McCormack's bastion. He even carried Eddie's home precinct in Dorchester, 317-304. By the size and scope of his victory, Kennedy became an early-book favorite for November over Republican Nominee George Cabot Lodge, 35, another smiling scion of another famous Massachusetts family...
Prospects selected, the procedure is to make contact. The telephone is the first entering wedge in a bastion as impermeable as the Maginot Line...