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...course, any new Harvard House will serve as a microcosm for a new, pioneering society, and interested sociologists may wish to observe the leadership patterns among those who decide to cast light into darkness. Any such House must be fit to inaugurate the bold new concept of the Behavioral Barogue...
...Iowa's Fourth District, an area of small (less than 300 acres) farms running southeast from Des Moines, the state's politics can be seen in microcosm. There, in 1956, Republican Incumbent Karl Le-Compte, 71, won his tenth term by running strong in small towns and carrying 50.7% of the vote against Farmer-Lawyer Steven Carter, 43. This year LeCompte has retired, but Democrat Carter, still trying, is making headway among farmers caught in the cost-price squeeze and in the squeezed small towns that depend on farmers. To replace LeCompte, the Republicans nominated personable John...
...Governor Lindsay Almond, highly skilled lawyer and vote-getting politician, the conflict between republican law and regional politics as dictated by prejudice comes to bear in a microcosm. Almond is a true son of the Virginia that gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the bone, blood and brain of the republic. He is equally a son of the Virginia that gave to the Confederacy its crimson fields, its grey-clad men, and above all its leaders, who should have known better...
...instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...
...that they are the legal government of their republic. On a mountain near the plain near the Adriatic, another hundred men insist they are the true, Communist government for the same republic. Instead of missiles the antagonists are hurling insults, but for all else, San Marino today is a microcosm of the world...