Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the new Selective Service Act effective this July 1, medical students are the only graduates deferrable by local boards. But Culver said that this could not have affected this year's applications. Pre-med science and math requirements force students thinking of attending medical school to make plans several years in advance, he said...
Well, I'm gonna write a little letter, Gonna mail it to my local deejay; Yeah, there's a jumpin'est record That I want my jockey to play...
Committeeman John A.P. Good is the key to the rupture of the Independents. He is a pleasant, balding, soft-voiced man, who occasionally offers candy to the press and seems a caricature of the smooth and successful local politician. But since he joined the Committee last January he has been under repeated attack from Duehay, first for allegedly making a political deal and now for "cronyism." His clumsy machinations have even alienated one of his fellow Independents. Last Thursday's vote count showed Good a shaky sixth and his election is still not certain...
Last month, it looked as though the "deal" Duehay had hinted at was about to be completed. Good nominated a local administrator for the third assistant superintendent post--though the job hadn't yet been advertised and the Committee had received no applications. Duehay fired another fusilade at Good. But more important than Duehay's statement was James Fitzgerald's decision to vote against Good. "I have the deciding vote here," Fitzgerald, a crusty veteran of 20 years in School Committee politics, said with obvious relish at the October 17 meeting. Then he twisted the knife by referring...
...group, said that working conditions--not wages--were the issue of the strike. "We work a nine hour day, seven days a week, ad have no vacations," he said. He explained that the picketers arrived in Cambridge Tuesday from New York City, where they are members of Local...