Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side-the representation to you of decisions taken by those same Governing Boards. On reflection, however. I feel sure that you will perceive in a high proportion of those very decisions solid evidence that the Faculty's views have been both recorded and valued. Whatever changes may come, in the endless remodeling of Harvard, there is no basis for assuming that the relationship in this area is one between adversaries; and there is nothing to be gained by trying to manufacture such an assumption...
...spokesmen dismissed threats by the high school students, saying. "We'll come back if they want to talk. but not if they want to bust our skulls...
Some of those countres take a vacation from their usual jobs in order to be present for the social festivities of the count. But others come for another simple reason: the $12 a day the job pays. "I need the money, What else can I say?" comments a sixtyish lady in a flowered dress...
...count has a rhythm of its own; at first the moments of activity are few and far between as ballots are laboriously counted and stamped. Then, as the redistribution picks up speed, the flurries of activity come closer together, though waiting for the next count is always an infinity for any politician, anywhere. The onlookers join in the handicapping game, in particular attempting the difficult task of determining which candidates will have number two votes to give to which others, or as they put it. "who'll be feeding whom." Conversations go like this...
...perfect" electoral system exists, however; PR, whatever its faults, does succeed in making Cambridge's political system mirror all the strains and divisions running through the City. As such, it seems to have found a home here. For some years to come, Cambridge will probably still be counting its ballots by the weekend after election Tuesday...