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...Council Transfer SheetNO. TO BE ELECTED Quota 2638 1st Count 2d Count W.Sullivan Surplus 3rd Count D Sullivan Surplus 4th Count McGurk Ruma-Jones 5th Count Hunt 6th Count Okun 7th Count LaTrem-ouille 8th Count Agee 9th Count CaragianesAgee 212 2 214 0 214 2 216 15 15 231 28 259 7 266Bentubo 271 5 276 0 276 3 279 1 280 1 281 3 284 35 319 11 330Caragianes 289 5 294 1 295 1 296 1 298 3 301 1 302 5 307Clinton...
Under Cambridge's complex proportional representation voting system, "number one" votes are what count. But if a candidates does well enough (or badly enough), his votes are "transferred" to the candidate marked number two (see page for a more detailed explantions). If either Sullivan "makes quota" (gets ten percent of the total vote) in the first count, their surplus will be distributed to the next candidates. There is only one maxim to remember here: CCA votes are much more likely to transfer to other CCA candidates. Therefore, if David Sullivan and Walter Sullivan each went a few hundred over...
Several candidates besides the Sullivans are likely to do well enough on the first count that their election will be all but assured. Duehay has won friends in all parts of the city during his two years as mayor (the legend in Cambridge politics is that the mayoralty is worth 500 votes) and should finish strong. Duehay came within 200 votes of making quota in 1979, and could conceivably do the same this time...
Tuesday (sunshine helps the CCA) turn out its fickle voters, or so the legend goes) will be less tense than Wednesday, when the count begins. And the suspense will build straight through Thursday and probably well into Friday as the process continues. The CCA will elect four candidates--Graham, Duehay, David Sullivan and someone else, most likely Wolf--almost for certain; their bid at a fifth seat, then rests on a number of factors, some beyond their control...
...Beethoven, an eleven-hour series in which Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in all nine symphonies and assorted lesser works. By the standards of commercial television, the American 60% is made up of generally low-budget productions: the dance troupes of Twyla Tharp and May O'Donnell, Count Basie at Carnegie Hall and Elizabeth Swados' musical reworking of poems by William Blake. The host and narrator for most of the programming is Patrick Watson, 51, a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and writer who wears a dinner jacket, affects a hearty manner and will probably be considered inoffensive...