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Rudolph is largely free, therefore, from political pressures. Not beholden to Cambridge residents or votes, he can ride out public criticism more easily than can a City Councillor. But in addition, Rudolph's scheme is intelligent, and will probably be effective in relieving the City's chronic congestion. Many of his recommendations are based on a study of traffic in the Harvard Square area which was commissioned by local commercial interests in 1962. And Rudolph has carefully avoided several of the mistakes which crippled the abortive plan ten years...
...very narrow margin, but he still amassed an impressive number of votes. His loss was not a real defeat since in this context the incumbent had an overwhelming advantage. He was a resident of long standing and very well-known in the community. Also, it is primarily people beholden to the incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully avoided mentioning the mayor...
...town-gown tensions - and have also made administrators more conscious of the fact that their institutions may possess the intellectual resources to help create what Hester calls "a renaissance in urban life." University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell believes that the modern university "is not beholden to any political or economic master," and thus is "the last major institution of urban life that can be called upon for unbiased, dispassionate information about the crisis of our cities...
...Though a somewhat listless campaigner, Metcalf stands to benefit from the fact that Babcock, who has two years to go in his four-year term as Governor, promised in 1964 to serve it out. The Senator also invokes his congressional experience, while tagging Babcock as a political novice beholden to business interests-though Metcalf himself relies heavily on Big Labor's support. Above all, Metcalf is counting on help from Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, the mahatma of Montana politics...
...Stone, at an age when most men look back ruefully on the years behind, on the social debts unpaid, on the causes not espoused; here he is, working like a crazy man at what he loves to do, thumbing his nose at the government, yet making a nice living, beholden to no one, feeling quite subversive and generally all optimistic smiles--smiles for himself and for man's future on this planet. He loves to call himself the only capitalist entrepreneur left in the news business...