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...Mendel Rivers' South Carolinian fief, the voters do all but pay scutage. The First District's Democrats have loyally returned him to Congress for 28 years; Republicans have long since accepted his seignorial reign and run only occasional token candidates against...
...count at week's end showed that Labor dropped 1,282 borough council seats, while the Conservatives gained 1,295. Steelmaking Sheffield, for 40 years a Labor fief, fell to the Tories; so did Norwich, after 35 years of Labor rule. London went solidly Conservative as Labor lost 16 boroughs, holding on to a mere four...
However, as journalism-which is history's fief in time-the book is another matter. Mailer is pretentious about Marxism. When he suggests that it would not really matter if all Asia went Communist, because expansion only creates problems for Communism, he is, at best, playful or naive. He brilliantly employs the suggestive, evocative devices of the new journalists-or old novelists. But he suggests too much, and evokes too wildly. He looks into the faces of the U.S. marshals and reads in them the notion that Viet Nam is where the "American small town" gets its "kicks...
...French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could not resist the temptation to play the role of feudal sovereign, and last week he went off to examine his fief...
...Virginia, political fief of the late Harry Byrd for four decades, last week's Democratic primary elections indicated that the old Byrd machine might be rattling toward a final breakdown. Sidney Severn Kellam, a chief mechanic of the machine for 36 years, lost his political power base in the Norfolk area when five of the eight candidates supported by his organization for the state legislature and local offices were defeated by allies of Virginia's moderate U.S. Senator William Spong. With the power center of the Old Dominion's politics shifting inexorably from the county courthouses...