Word: arens
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Dead in the Water. Many moderates were concerned by Romney's failure to generate more enthusiasm among G.O.P. professionals, despite his preeminence in the popularity polls. "A lot of us out here simply aren't convinced that Romney is the chosen moderate to lead the party in 1968," said Washington's Governor Daniel Evans. Oregon's Tom McCall, who makes no secret of his admiration for Rockefeller, asked: "What the dickens has happened to Romney's campaign? At the moment, it's lying dead in the water...
Even those retained to work on the new, enlarged morning Herald (to be called the Boston Herald-Traveler) aren't too happy. Despite Akerson's rousing statements about the wonderful possibilities for the new hybrid, many of them fear that the Herald will soon follow the Traveler's steps. This isn't too likely since the Herald, which carries the New York' Times news dispatches, is a fairly solid and well-liked paper. But some staffers see a grizzly connection between the Record-American's need for a new plant, the death of the Traveler, and the Herald-Traveler...
...organizing unions among local hospital workers. Kim Moody of New York discussed his attempts to radicalize the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees by working within Local 1412. A representative of the American Friends Service Committee talked about radicalizing technicians in Cambridge corporations: "They feel they aren't allowed to work on the most significant kinds of problems ...You talk about Vietnam and start a kind of systems analysis of social objectives." Other delegates discussed attempts to organize middle-class neighborhoods in Boston against...
...Fellows program is just as experimental as the rest of the Institute's endeavor. Intensively experimental, with all the characteristics thereof: disorganization, gaps, trial-and-error on the one hand; innovation, excitement, freedom on the other. And we don't yet know the results. The returns aren't in; the experiment continues...
...this year's yearbook, Three Thirty One, isn't reading about what was significant or meaningful at Harvard this year. It's like re-reading last year's yearbook. Or the one before that. Or the one before that. With the exception of your own picture (and if you aren't graduating, you probably don't even have that consolation) there's very little in this year's book to distinguish it from past editions...