Word: campaigns
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...amount of campaign window dressing," Collins lashed out, "no amount of political endorsement by respectable names--who themselves may have been misled or incompletely informed--no amount of glib talk by college professors as advisers, and no amount of pretense can alter to any degree, or for a single moment, the true nature of a candidate's background...
...mayoralty campaign between John E. Powers, president of the Massachusetts Senate, and John F. Collins, Suffolk County's Register of Probate, the issue of a dying city has nearly been forgotten. The campaign's chief feature, aside from a daily round of recriminations, is a simple pun, which Collins works to exhaustion...
Plastered over billboards, on the face of a thousand campaign posters, repeated many times daily over radio and television, this catchy play-on-words has caught the voters' attention. Asked to define a "power politician," Collins called him "one interested in helping himself rather than the city, who has a big campaign chest, and who in the final days of the campaign will try to submerge the issues under a flood of newspaper advertisements and radio-television appearances...
...sponsor of the law that legalized pinball machines in the Common-wealth--which a Federal Court has ruled to be gambling devices." And, says Collins, Powers has "refused to explain why he voted against the Massachusetts Crime Commission." Finally, the Register of Probate charges that Powers' "unlimited supply of campaign funds is constantly unexplained and mysterious...
Beyond the problem of good government rests the the one of town-gown relations. Over the past two years, the city administration's trend to throwing fewer bombs at Harvard faces a crossroads. If the University's public relations campaign, its planning office, and its good-will ambassadors continue to meet Cambridge halfway, then it hopefully can expect similar overtures from the city. The crucial test will soon lie with the new Council and Mayor to see what they do with Cambridge's oldest most famous, and certainly very valuable institution -- Harvard. Tuesday's election could make a great difference...