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...homelife as a political tool, the most important feature of Al's rhetorical grab-bag is his odd combination of humor and bombast. Once, when he was trying to deliver a speech on nothing in particular at the beginning of a council meeting, Councilor Al asked aloud if anyone was listening to what he was saying. (He hadn't been reelected mayor yet; everybody listens to the mayor). When there was no reply, Al moved that the meeting be adjourned. Since it was Monday night and there was a football game on TV starting at nine, the male councilors voted...
...university where the president and deans have always tried to avoid demonstrations, it is difficult to conceive of such a situation. Yet this is precisely what happened last spring: President Bok and Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, released statements to be read aloud at a demonstration against a University professor, Dr. Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number...
...little to pick over this time, when primaries and advance delegate counts had correctly foretold the results, and conventions served largely to ratify the relative strengths of rival factions. As Ken Galbraith looked lankily down on the serried ranks of pressmen, few of them even taking notes, he wondered aloud how any free-enterprising businessman would regard all that time and money spent for so little result...
About this time every year, officials in Government and industry begin wondering aloud whether the nation will have enough natural gas to make it through the winter. The speculations invariably revive the suggestion that there would be more of the clean, cheap fuel to go around if gas cost more and was more profitable to look for and produce. Last week the Federal Power Commission decided to put that perennial hypothesis to the test. By a 3-to-1 vote, the commissioners sharply jacked up the price of much of the natural gas that is now piped across state lines...
...those who succeeded, however, the rewards could be substantial. Winners received handsome pensions and cash prizes from their native cities for their performances. More important, they gained lifelong prestige. Their accomplishments were listed in family records and read aloud at contests and public celebrations. The publicity made it easy for them to get into politics and become local Tyrant, an urban office which had many perquisites...