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...advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...
Although most of the undergraduates seemed to be in favor of bringing girls to New Haven, the Daily News, Yale's newspaper, came out against the change. Managing Editor Charles Abuza stated, "Yale is a sort of last bastion for males and we don't want to see it go." Robert Rossefsky, managing editor of the Yale Record, also opposed admitting women to the College, on similar grounds...
...moving into "an Age of Gluttony." Who is to check the deterioration? Not, thinks Kirk, the materialistic liberals who, like the old Russian intellectuals, thought they were emancipated when "they were merely unbuttoned." He thinks it is a job for conservatives, and that the U.S. is the strongest bastion of conservatism left in the world...
...Paix to jeer at an elderly champagne-sipper: "You! We didn't get you in '48, but we won't miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations, i.e., pressagent, explained: "We want to attract the salaried American vacationer who gets tired of five-course meals at high prices...
...home. To convince everyone of its objectivity, it invited the State Department of Education to supervise the testing, only to find that the department had no such tests on hand and would have to get them from Chicago. At week's end the tests duly arrived: the last bastion of segregation in Ohio had finally fallen...