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...school committee races the effects of slate voting will be stronger. There is always a plethora of candidates for the seven available positions (over 20 in 1971), but three stand out both for their views and their community support: Timothy Callahan, Eric Davin and Mary Ellen Preusser. (Republican Koocher is the only "young Agnew" who might take one of the seats--he has $7000 to spend on his campaign, an outrageous sum in the school race, only justified because he sees it as a stepping-stone to bigger things...
...Callahan is one of the first of a potentially really new breed in American city politics. He is 19, a life-long resident of Cambridge and a 1971 graduate of Cambridge High and Latin School. He has experienced the totality of the school system's degradation and has focused and articulated his sentiments against that system. He advocates citizen review of teacher candidates, with review of tenure, student participation in curriculum development, further development of alternative schools, and new work-study programs. In 1971 Callahan founded Students United through Politics for Educational Reform (SUPER). SUPER is credited with the creation...
...Slate two years ago. If not as radical as Eric or Tim, she has a vested interest: a child in the Cambridge public schools. She has expressed support for movements to increase citizen participation in the school system, but has not articulated her position as clearly as Davin or Callahan. Married and not working, she has had more time and money to give herself voter exposure, and may have a strong bid at one of the vacant seats...
Jack March, 53, is a tennis pro who puts in up to eight grueling hours a day on the courts at Cleveland's Shaker Racquet Club. John P. Callahan, 51, a funeral director in Terre Haute, Ind., regularly plays 36 holes of golf in a day; he hunts and fishes and has built his own log cabin. John Williams, 55, works full time as a regional vice president of National Cash Register Company...
Catholic author Sidney Cornelia Callahan disagrees: "That was Raskolnikov's argument in Crime and Punishment: that to kill somehow gave him a sense of growth. I would say everything you have said for contraception, but not for abortion." Nevertheless Moore is convinced that she is right-and from her own experience even concludes that it can sometimes be wrong not to end a pregnancy: "It would have been extremely immoral for me not to have an abortion when I did. There were circumstances having to do with my family, my studies, my future, my health. Taking these factors into...