Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas or desirable civic improvements, particularly items of largely neighborhood importance which the CCA could overlook. But if CCA Councillors do not offer their support, the independents must form temporary alliances, often by trading votes with their fellows. There are always more or less permanent alliances within this group, but these are sometimes unreliable. Not infrequently the independent Councillor must choose between the CCA's plan for progress, or no plan...
...group visited a special class in advanced business management, the library, and the student center Tuesday as part of a cross-country study of economic growth and stability in America. They were "friendly, curious, and asked many questions," one observer remarked. He indicated that they were "receptive" to the work being done in business education and seemed more interested in learning than in teaching...
Their trip is part of an exchange program arranged during Mikoyan's stay here last fall by the Committee for Economic Development, a non-profit research group of prominent businessmen. Plans for the return half of the program indicate that several prominent American economists will visit the Soviet Union next summer...
Politically right now, Cambridge is divided into two camps: the Cambridge Civic Association on the one hand, and the rest of the city, lumped together as "independents," on the other. Neither group is homogeneous, neither controls its candidates with the force of an organized political party, and neither is static. But both exist...
...plurality rather than PR election, the CCA maintains, the Irish minority of 30% could control the two governing bodies. On occasions, another large ethnic group, the Italians, might gain some representation. But the numerous other subgroups within the city, particularly the greater-Harvard, greater-Brattle St. area of wealthy and upper middle classes, would have no say in City government. With PR, however, the CCA can organize support for a slate of candidates and elect some of them...