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That was the announcement of a historic action: the U.S. Senate, which prides itself as the earth's last bastion of unlimited debate, had just imposed cloture on a small band of filibustering liberal Democrats. For seven days the filibusterers had tied up the Senate by fighting an Administration bill that would turn over communications satellites to a corporation owned half by the public and half by private companies. Led by Oregon's splenetic Wayne Morse, they charged that the measure was a "giveaway" by Government, principally to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Ironically, the liberals used...
...painting divides into two epochs: before and after the Armory Show of 1913. That year, from the vaulted bastion of Manhattan's 69th Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...Paul's summer school, called the Advanced Studies Program, is a pioneering blend of noblesse oblige and intelligent economics. For 102 years, the wealthy Episcopal bastion in Concord, N.H., shut tight each summer, sending its boys home for three months. This did not seem right to St. Paul's rector, the Rev. Matthew M. Warren, 54, who thought there must be some way to use those empty classrooms and dormitories. He decided to open them to the best young brains of rural, frugal New Hampshire, where no public high school yet offers Russian, calculus, advanced biology, chemistry...
...controversy that predictably followed publication of his remarks, few voices were raised in his defense. The New York Post, a self-anointed bastion of civil liberty, regretfully declined to "follow him on to this dubious high ground." Said the Post: "The Justice's position must surely seem fantastic. It would literally deprive both the highest and the lowest citizen of the right to serious recourse against reckless defamation. It would place in the hands of the press an almost unlimited power to destroy." "My own view," said R. Newton Rooks, president of the Chicago Bar Association, "is that...
...Most Urgent Duty." In Oran, terrorists' Jeeps and commandos with S.A.O. emblazoned on their helmets have been forced off the streets, which they call their "last bastion" and virtually controlled until last week. Commandeering Oran's five tallest buildings, French army machine-gunners gained the upper hand in the city's rooftop war. In Algiers. French patrols backed by armored cars and helicopters tirelessly stalked the downtown area with orders to shoot terrorists on sight. The army has been heavily reinforced: in Oran alone there are now 12,000 French troops, and last week the first units...