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Upstate New York was, along with Maine and Vermont, once the most rock-ribbed Republican part of the nation. A map of even the 1936 Presidential election shows one big Republican swath from Buffalo to Bangor. But Upstate has changed since the '30's. Its proportion of Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholics has been rising, and these are just the ethnic groups that have been the backbone of Democratic surges since 1950 in states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Michigan--states that were predominantly Republican...
...something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against the shattered tree trunks beyond...
...Marxist-Maoist. From this point of view, social oppression is a phenomenon of certain types of economic organization (Feudal, Capitalist, etc.). To see racial discrimination as a category of economic oppression is to consider the Negro as an "incidental" victim of a system which cuts a far wider swath. This kind of thinking has typified the attitude of American Marxists for many years (see Richard Wright's introduction to Black Metropolis). Most SDS members, conversely, construe American "imperialism" as an outgrowth of racial prejudice. They see the Viet Cong as an "incidental" victim of white bigotry...
...Kashmir was concerned, the opposition had little to criticize, for Shastri was in luck on the border last week. On the cease-fire line, Indian troops captured three more Pakistani outposts in heavy fighting. More important, Indian troops moved across the cease-fire line to occupy a sizable swath of Pakistan-held territory as a "precautionary measure" against further infiltrators. Even Indian resentment of the failure of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to denounce Pakistani aggression was mollified by public circulation of a report by Australia's Lieut. General Robert Nimmo. He has served for eleven years in Kashmir...
This summer, following tours of Russia, the U.S. and Japan, the short, thickset Szeryng has been cutting a wide swath on the music-festival circuit in Europe. At the end of the five-week-long Salzburg Festival, one critic declared Szeryng the "Hahn im Korb" (German equivalent for "cock of the walk") among all the soloists who had appeared...