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Vellucci is a past master of the Cambridge political style take care of the small things voters want make sure that the people in your area get their share of city services and milk ethnic and neighborhood sentiment for all the votes they're worth. That's the way it's been in the City-at least since 1941, when Cambridge adopted the Proportional Representation (PR) system, which places a premium on getting a solid-not necessarily large-group of voters to back a candidate year in and year...
Over the years, this system has shown an amazing durability, if not too much dynamism. Nine councilors get elected-almost always four from the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and five "independents." Together they apportion the City's bounty to their respective constituents try to keep the tax rate as low as possible, and sometimes, as from 1965 to 1968, break up in bitter fights over the choice of a city manager...
...program (an intensive tutoring course for high school students) I worked with one boy who had 700 college boards. Harvard turned him down because they said 'his environment was not conducive to further academic progress.' That boy is now in prison. The feeling is 'I'm never going to get into Harvard or M. I. T. anyway, so why bother trying...
...problem Hayes faces is, of course, how to get enough number one votes to get elected. He faces stiff opposition from Francis Duchay, a professor at the Ed School and a School Committee member, and several other liberal candidates whose ideas are close to Hayes'. The trouble with the PR system is that it forces all candidates to run city-wide and pits similar candidates against each other for support. Hayes never attacks Duchay or any of the other candidates, rather he tries to concentrate specifically on selling his own program...
...could pick Dartmouth. Let's look at the facts for lack of anything better to do. The Indian's rushing average is almost the highest in the nation. But Yale is one of the most effective teams against the rush. Yale's offense is coming fast, but getting through the Big Green offense is no easy task. I think Dartmouth will have to show a little better passing attack than it did against Harvard, and if it does, the Elis could really get stung. But they're playing in the Yale Bowl, where, according to Bob Blackman. Yale...