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...resulted in the further shrinkage of the tax base as white collar professionals fled the city for the lower property tax levies of the suburbs. The state legislature, controlled by the suddenly powerful combination of suburbs and the western districts, refused, and continues to refuse, to help the city cope with its "Catch-22" predicament...
Often outmaneuvered by the left during the 1960s, the right has now copied the enemy's tactics. Like COPE, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, the New Right has plunged into the grass roots, ringing doorbells, phoning and passing out leaflets. Like the student left, the rightists have taken to the streets to demonstrate. And can they pack a meeting! Feminists everywhere were in an uproar last summer when they found that their state caucuses for the International Women's Year were infiltrated and sometimes taken over by conservative militants deriding ERA and opposing abortion...
...cutters to patrol the entire New England coastline. According to Edward Drinan, a DEA agent stationed in Portland, drug smuggling in Maine is "an everyday occurrence." His bleak assessment: "We are getting our pants beat off. There's no doubt about the fact we just can't cope with...
...cope with the problem created by the increased number of students if we will build more small communities within the large community. We should not worry because in the 20th century the small community can no longer be co-extensive with the whole. For experience has shown that a small community set in the large environment acquires by that very fact a richness, and an importance which it could not otherwise have. Harvard can continue to be Harvard for a long time to come...
Wyatt added that Lee's ability to cope with the problems of running the force allowed the committee more time for its search...