Word: matter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...count, no matter how well organized it may be, always strikes a newcomer as something like an especially chaotic county fair: children run about, ladies gossip, politicians caucus, and loudspeakers blare...
...didn't take Princeton head coach Jake McCandless long to abandon the single-wing when he took over from Dick Coleman last spring. Finding the right man to play the all-important quarterback position in the "T" was a different matter...
...plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...
...goes, for hours which soon stretch into days. As the count grinds along, some candidates begin to complain: "What's the matter with the Election Commission? Don't they understand this system?" Council candidate Daniel J. Clinton inquires of Eddie Martin a man of no small local importance who (a)-writes the City stories for the Cambridge-Somerville edition of the Boston Record-American; (b) -serves on the Cambridge Housing Authority; and (c) -is a good friend of Councillor Al Vellucci...
...directorial assignment, Herbert Ross lights Clark's songs as if she were doing a turn on This Is Tom Jones, and tends to place his camera at jarring angles. He even mounts it on the V-l, making the viewer feel like a patient of Dr. Strangslove. No matter. It is one of the graces of group art that if any one can destroy a project, so any one can save it. Mr. Chips is barely enough because Mr. O'Toole is more than enough...