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Cambridge is the last (and first) bastion of strict proportional representation (residents affectionately call it PR) in the country. To understand the system, let's follow a hypothetical voter through the electoral process--from the voting booth to the floor of the gymnasium, where a corps of veteran pollsters gather every two years to count the ballots...
Public accepts his paper ballot and enters the booth. His first task is comparatively simple--yes or no votes on each of six non-binding referendum questions. But just as he has gotten up a head of steam, Public hits a roadblock. "This ballot is like nothing I've ever seen" he muses as he peruses the list of city council and school committee candidates...
Last week Sindona mysteriously reappeared in a public telephone booth at 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, just west of New York's sleazy Times Square...
Even on a routine and relatively quiet day, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is like an anthill that has been suddenly kicked open. Men in suits from Brooks Brothers and F.R. Tripler move briskly from booth to trading station, clutching slips of paper. Clerks in blue and tan cotton jackets flit about trying to keep up with orders. Messengers dart in and out of the trading area, while overhead, in symbols seemingly as cryptic as the writing that appeared on the walls of Belshazzar's palace, projectors display the quotations off the stock tapes...
...early afternoon, the market was down 20 points and the tape, which had already been delayed half a dozen times, was running nearly half an hour behind the trading. As it did so, the tension increased. At one booth, a cheer went up as a stock that had been doing poorly all morning started to rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza...