Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better title for your article "What Price Power?" [Oct. 29] would have been: "What Price Weakness?" Our security is cheap at ten times the price...
...Americans, many Iranian students have adopted a low profile, saying little or nothing about recent events in Tehran. "Iranians usually don't take things passively," said Marilyn Thompson, director of foreign students at Central Y.M.C.A. Community College in Chicago. "But right now most of them feel that they better cool it or they will be sent home...
BRECHT'S Caucasian Chalk Circle is yet another of his sagas of strong proletarian women fighting for a better world, women who retain their belief in goodness despite bourgeois disorder and chaos. One sees echoes of Grusha's stamina in Brecht's Mother Courage and St. Joan. If the world is to be saved in Brecht's eyes, it will be saved by Women--suffering pours iron into their veins. They have been through hell and back, yet they come out smiling...
After all, candidates from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's old-line liberal group, nabbed four of six school committee seats and four of nine city council slots. The CCA vote percentage was much higher than usual. David Sullivan, the CCA's rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There...
...five seats would make the CCA really happy. There is plenty of reason for jubilation among Cambridge liberals this week--they did better than ever before. But the biggest party will come the day the CCA captures five seats on the city council...