Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offered the motion "in the spirit of the Fainsod Report," intending that the election procedures committee would set the terms of office and other requirements so as to retain the division between the three areas, while assuring that enough council seatswould be open each year to give all groups fair representation in each election. This could be done by cutting the term of office so that more seats would be open each time, Sims said...
...favored was the return of Olympian Marty Liquori, who had run only one meet this fall due to a leg injury. But he dropped out of Monday's race early and had to be helped off the course to have X- rays taken, as advised by Harvard trainer Jimmy Fair...
Zavelle said he could offer no certain explanation for the rise in thefts among students. "Some of these students complain they don't feel like waiting in line, or they say that the Coop overprices and they're getting their 'fair share,' "Zavelle said...
...passes fair judgment on what he terms the neo-mystics. They seek an immediate relationship with God, or the Holy. Their joy, their communitarianism, their sense of contemplation and phantasy absolves them of their excesses in their attempts to tune in on a higher frequency. But he criticizes these bearded troubadors for copping out of a society which badly needs their other-worldliness...
...difficult to explain the predictability of Boston's elections. Several plausible theories can be advanced but their mutual exclusiveness can be extremely puzzling. It is fair to say that the Boston electorate is quite conservative, law-and-order oriented, and votes in candidates that go along with it. But no one can determine why Bostonians would sweep Hicks, an outspoken anti-black politician, into office with an amazing plurality, and give second place to Tom Atkins, a liberal black from Roxbury who finished a badly beaten 16th in the primaries...