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Although technically city politics are non-partisan, Cambridge is overwhelmingly Democratic and the spectrum usually runs from middle to left. In the middle are the so-called Independents who now control a five-man majority on the council with varying degrees of success. After 30 unsuccessful ballots for mayor in January 1974, when the present council took office, two Independents, Walter J. Sullivan and Leonard J. Russell, joined forces with the liberal faction of the council to elect themselves mayor and vice-mayor, in exchange for their votes to replace then-City Manager John Corcoran with James L. Sullivan. Since...
...court's historic school integration decision of 1954. It is a perfect test case. The tall, red-haired sergeant has an impeccable twelve-year military record, no known psychiatric problems, and a Bronze Star and Purple Heart won on one of his three tours in Viet Nam. A five-man Air Force review board begins hearings Sept. 16 at Langley...
Pride of the Bimbos by John Sayles. 258 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown. $7.95. In this comic first novel, Author John Sayles does not just ask that disbelief be willingly suspended; he wants it lynched. He offers up a woebegone five-man softball team (the "world renowned Barooklyn Bimmmmmboos") scrounging around for the carnival trade in scraggly Southern hamlets. Not only do the Bimbos play their exhibitions in drag, but they boast one of the shortest shortstops in captivity: Midget "Pogo" Burns, a onetime private detective now running from the giant black pimp he once shot up in San Francisco...
Feminists were rocked last week by a pair of "no-rape" rulings in London and New York. First came word that Britain's highest judges, the five-man Law Lords, had reviewed the convictions of four men who forced a woman to have intercourse. One of the men was the woman's husband and had suggested the idea to his three drinking buddies, warning that she was "kinky" and only "turned on" by struggling. The Lords asked themselves: Can "a man be said to have committed rape if he believed that the woman was consenting," no matter...
...winning the GBC with a five-man total of 788, Harvard reasserted that it is easily the best golf team in the Boston area. B.C. finished second with 820, Tufts was next at 821, with B.U., Northeastern and MIT lagging far behind...