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...fourth incumbent, Independent Joseph E. Maynard, represents his municipal employee constituency well. His chief concern is that School Department employees receive generous contracts, but he also enthusiastically supports "alternate education" programs in the City...
...Independents may have difficulty winning a third seat in addition to Fitzgerald and Maynard, primarily because none of their candidates from North Cambridge (an area which usually provides at least one Independent committeeman) are particularly well-known...
...lackluster mayoralty campaign that made up in the number of candidates fielded (eleven in all) for what it lacked in zest, Atlanta's 35-year-old black vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, all 275 Ibs. of him, broke from the pack last week and finished first with 46.6% of the vote. In next week's runoff, Jackson seems likely to beat incumbent Mayor Sam Massell, who finished second with 19.8%. Running a close third, with 19.1% of the vote, was Charles Weltner, a U.S. Congressman from 1963 to 1967 who was one of the South's first white...
...shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus, generally credited to Albert Camus, and Waiting for Godot, which has been claimed for Samuel Beckett. If you don't believe it, he argues, read all three works; the language is identical...
Growing Cynicism. Governors and mayors are having to contend with a growing suspicion of politicians and cynicism about government. In Atlanta, a supporter of Democratic Mayoral Candidate Maynard Jackson exclaimed: "These days a politician is about three cuts below a used-car salesman." Says Ohio Governor John Gilligan: "I don't visit a town that the question isn't asked, 'Why do all you politicians turn out to be crooks?' " Gilligan cites that attitude to explain why less than 20% of Toledo's voters went to the polls in the recent municipal election, compared with...