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...Elliot L. Richardson said that he, as a U.S. Attorney, knew of at least four cases worse than the publicized Worcester case, the Metropolitan District Commission scandal, and the "mystery building" deal...
According to a former U.S. attorney, these scandals are the product of a political favors system carried to the point where the favors themselves dominate governmental action. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article, aptly titled "Poisoned Politics," Elliot L. Richardson '41 asserts, "The most striking feature of the Massachusetts political scene...is the subordination of programs and principles to personal relationships. Friendships and enmities...courtesies and slights have an importance in determining political alignments that is exceeded only by the pocketbook...
Fifteen times during yesterday's contest Elliot Aronson asked students watching the televised game to estimate the chances that the batter would hit safely, strike out, hit a home run, etc. The purpose: to determine the influence of situational factors on the viewer's answer...
...trip, which is being financed entirely by private means, began on June 16, and includes 36 formal concerts in eight countries. The group, composed of 47 Harvard undergraduates and 11 graduate students is being led by Professor Elliot Forbes, Glee Club conductor...
...study of single-party governments most interesting; it is a concise explanation of the authoritarian single-party system, which, the author rightly concludes, "will become a general pattern in African states." A second most interesting contributing is the article on African law, by Boston lawyer Archibald McColl, which, like Elliot Berg's survey of American industry in Africa, presents hard facts. Jeffrey Butler's article on Africa's new leadership suffers most from pious generalization--e.g. "the quality of leadership will continue to be of crucial importance...