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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...remember when I used to have trouble predicting these games. I was new to the art and I approached it on too much of an emotional plane. You know, picking with your heart, not your head. Of course, there's not much of a choice in my case. Really though. I was too chauvinistic. I stubbornly picked Brown and Harvard even the Braves, week after week. You'd think I might have finally learned a lesson from B. J. Thomas-Billy kept his faith in Sue, kept expecting letters from her, and back home. Sue was running round...
...must be realistic. Now I'm attacking these weekly dilemmas with a refreshing albeit vicious, rationality that has proven too much for even quirks of fate to overcome. I've been abused, it is true, but now I've rebounded and I'm twisting again. Yet I must retain an appealing humility, and I must remember Captain Crunch's important role in the grand scheme of these things. As Moses led the Jews out of the darkness of Egypt, so Captain Crunch led me to my present state of football enlightenment...
...other thought concerns the CFIA. I have long disagreed with Mr. Bowie on the major questions of foreign and military policy. This has not been passive argument between establishment types. As it has carried into public life it has involved sharp political infighting. But during much of the period of our controversy, Mr. Bowie's position on the Cold War and Vietnam has been that of the majority. Those of us who disagreed were greatly in the minority. On occasion we were cited as the agents of imperialism- in this case Communist imperialism. Had we been suppressed our position would...
...normally have this much cash here." said Jeffrey W. Willbrand 70. manager of the HSA charter flight service. He explained that since HSA usually accepts payment only by check the safe rarely contains more than small amounts of cash...