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Brooke's defeat does not fit the pattern of conservatives beating liberals. In his twelve years in the Senate, Brooke voted regularly for labor, minorities, consumer protection and a host of other orthodox liberal causes. But Tsongas is even more to the left and in fact drew large numbers of Democrats and independents who previously had backed Brooke...
Americans' unwillingness to vote has long been something of a scandal, and last week's election drew the lowest percentage of the electorate for a nonpresidential election since World War II. An estimated 34% of eligible voters went to the polls, as compared with 36% in the off-year election of 1974 and 43.5% in 1970. Experts attribute the latest decrease to the lowering of the voting age to 18. Because young people move frequently, they often fail to register for the relatively unexciting congressional elections. Aside from this indifference, some nonvoters argue that the major parties often...
...series of angry and emotional Cambridge City Council meetings, he confronted Harvard scientists with accusations of arrogance and indifference toward the Cambridge community. The meetings resulted in a nine-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge while a review board drew up a Cambridge ordinance regulating such experiments...
With the scientific community at odds over the new guidelines, a similar controversy surrounds the interpretation of the Cambridge ordinance. Sheldon Krimsky, one of the members of the review board that drew up the ordinance, says the Cambridge rule is specifically tied to the 1976 guidelines. "The way it stands now, the city has to revise the ordinance or institutions doing research will have to conform to the 1976 guidelines." Parker Coddington of the Government and Community Affairs Office, says, "The new guidelines would in no way change the application of the ordinance to the old guidelines because the guidelines...
...series' success will register later on millions of bathroom scales. Earlier indexes are available. The first episode drew a bigger audience than the debut of I, Claudius, a PBS hit last winter. Producer Hawkes-worth, who knew Rosa Lewis, says he is "happy that Americans enjoy her story, because she adored Americans. Reckoned they were all millionaires." She was wrong, but her eye, as always, rested squarely on the main chance. Rosa would have done very well in the U.S., and, with her hotel booked through next January, so should Louisa Leyton. ? Paul Gray