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Stronger in the Stronghold. It is in its traditional Midwest stronghold that the Republican Party has its best chance for 1962 gains. For one thing. Midwest Republicans no longer carry the burden of Ezra Taft Benson's farm program; now it is Democrats who must carry the cross of Secretary Orville Freeman's plans: > In Nebraska, Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior under Eisenhower, is favored to unseat Democratic Governor Frank Morrison...
...reassuring it is that college students recognize that they are the last stronghold of free intellectual inquiry in a time of conformity. Any group that welcomes the opposition and isn't afraid to have its philosophy shaken a little deserves great respect...
...last Wednesday's editorial. "Tutorial and the English Department." If our program were anything like that which he describes, we would also share his distaste for it. "The grand era of Harvard education," in which he thinks the Department still lives, must have been pretty grim indeed--a dark stronghold of nineteenth century philology, clanking with cumbersome internal machinery and populated with tutors who peeped surreptitiously at their students' latest rank-listing before deciding how many more scholarly secrets they might legally administer...
...free-trial period, a copy of L'Unità arrives with an unsolicited gift-a party card made out to the head of the family. But the party's drive for new members is uphill most of the way. Example: in the Red stronghold of Genoa, the number of registered party members has dropped from 90,000 in 1956 to 55,000 last year...
Last week it happened again in the arrival of a planeload of emergency supplies donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...