Word: citadel
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...Scheduled a vacation to start April 12, when he will fly to Charleston, S.C. to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from The Citadel, a military college headed by Old Soldier Mark Clark. From Charleston he will fly on to Augusta, where he hopes to stay until April 24 or 25, getting in a few golf rounds with his alternate choices to win the Masters Tournament, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead...
...advance in Asia. This was the place-a wrench-shaped "linguistic state" of 21 million Telugu-speaking people carved out of its neighbors in 1953-which the Communists had confidently expected to make their first political base in India. They talked extravagantly of turning Andhra into their "Yenan," a citadel from which they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground: a place of extreme and uncaring wealth, and of miserable poverty. In Andhra, four in every ten people...
...Soviet Union, U.S. denominations were permitted to send clergymen to minister to their nationals in Moscow. The Augustinians of the Assumption were chosen to supply priests to the Roman Catholics, and Father Bissonnette was the fourth Assump-tionist to serve a tour of duty in the enemy's citadel (no Protestant groups have ever sent ministers...
...spirit. From time to time, when Idaho's lead mines shut down, when grain prices fell and Washington's Big Bend wheat fields dried up, native brands of radicalism took hold. Nostrums like Populism were laced with occasional dynamitings; the Northwest was a pre-World War I citadel of the I.W.W. Those days are past, but the tradition remains, and "Eastern finance" is still a repugnant term. The New Deal was credited with power and irrigation, the colossus of Grand Coulee bringing alive Hanford's atomic energy plant, mushrooming cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty...
...singlehanded, a chapel at Vence. Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, has produced radically new churches in the U.S., and André Girard's stained glass for a chapel at Palo Alto, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25) is rich in ideas. The Vatican has been called, with good reason, a citadel of conservatism in art, yet it has commissioned a rugged individualist named Giacomo Manzu to design a new door for St. Peter...