Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fourteen liberal candidates for the Cambridge City Council and School Board will seek endorsement for this fall's elections Saturday at Cambridge Convention '77, a rally in Central Square that convention officials said yesterday is meant to unite Cambridge liberals behind a slate of candidates.
A coalition of several Cambridge liberal political groups is organizing the convention at which all registered Cambridge voters may participate, Robert W. Smith '69, a member of the convention's steering committee, said yesterday.
Smith said that because Cambridge's system of proportional representation makes it possible for someone to be elected with a minority of the vote, by allowing votes to list candidates on the ballot in order of preference, the convention committee hopes that five of its nominees will be elected in...
Against the failure of some of the author's shorter prose poems and stories, the title story shows the author at his best. Three generations clash "In the Miro District." Again it is a grown-up adolescent who tells the story of his relationship with his grandfather. Following social convention...
At times during the past four years, I have had difficulty reconciling my comfortable presence at Harvard with the continuing sorrow elsewhere on our planet. I was conscious somewhat of my obligations to the rest of the world, yet I read books and wrote articles while some of our brothers...