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Though the Russians have removed their bombers and nuclear rockets, they are apparently still pumping "defensive"' arms into Castro's island fortress. A new estimate...
...archaeologists--from over a dozen American and foreign institutions--located Shechem's sacred area this summer below the courtyard of the city's temple-fortress. The excavations, which were begun in 1957 and resumed in 1960 and this summer, have provided scholars with the long history of the sacred area...
...that no school on earth-and indeed, no church-can teach . . . It helps to explain how they have been able to produce children of kindergarten age who can walk through mobs to get to school. It demands great force and great cunning continually to assault the mighty and indifferent fortress of white supremacy...
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, by Peter S. Feibleman, is a little like a Negro Glass Menagerie. The widowed mother (Claudia McNeil) is a ferocious matriarch with a personality as forbidding as a medieval fortress. She has ringed her brood with a moat of make-believe, fearfully shielding them from the outside world. Her daughter (Ellen Holly) is retreating into a tormenting mental twilight of blinding headaches...
...Representative William Scranton. 45, who was elected Governor over Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth by 470,000 votes. Scranton (TIME cover. Oct. 19), who matched Dilworth insult for insult in one of the most savage campaigns in recent U.S. history, cut deeply into the Democratic fortress of Philadelphia, won ordinarily Democratic Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) by 52,000 votes. With a Republican legislature to help him, plus patronage powers that will give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with. So desperate is Pennsylvania...