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...heartland, which is supposed to be Nixon country, withstood the President's campaigning. One of the few important Republican scores in the Midwest was the Ohio Senate race, in which Robert Taft Jr. eked out a narrow victory over Howard Metzenbaum. The seat presently belongs to Democrat Stephen Young. But in yet another example of ticket-splitting, Ohio elected Democrat John Gilligan to succeed a retiring Republican Governor...
Racial agitation helped push CUNY into that stance. Last year black and Puerto Rican militants closed down the university's well-known City College for two weeks, demanding among other things the admission of more minority students. "We could have withstood the political pressure and the violence for two more years, but only with a lot of academic double talk and finagling," says Healy. Instead, the university's deceptively soft-spoken Chancellor Albert H. Bowker and a unanimous Board of Higher Education decided to outpace the militants, speed up expansion plans by five years, and offer a place...
...sailors had defended the Bolsheviks during the civil war, and they had withstood heavy and constant bombardment of their island fortress in doing so. But in late 1920, as the conflict drew to a close, they were becoming highly sensitive to the wave of strikes and peasant revolts which began sweeping the country with the tightening of the government's reins. "A restless and independent breed who loathed all privilege and authority," Paul Avrich writes in Kronstadt 1921, "They seemed forever on the verge of exploding into open violence against their officers or against the central government, which they regarded...
Washington had withstood civil rights marchers, poor people and antiwar demonstrators. But last week the capital came under siege from legions whose troops represented the Establishment itself. Nearly 1,000 New York lawyers, some of them from the same firm in which the President and Attorney General John Mitchell had once been partners, appeared to plead the case for peace in Southeast Asia...
...Egomania. Perhaps the reason Casals has withstood the wear and tear of time so well is that he has not faded, only mellowed. His new autobiography, Joys and Sorrows (as told to Albert E. Kahn; Simon & Schuster; $7.95), avoids the orgies of nostalgic egomania typical of most aging performers. "On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old," he begins. "That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter...