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Ralph J. Perk, Republican mayor of Cleveland, retained office in a landslide victory over city council clerk Mercedes Cotner in the non-partisan election yesterday...
...avoid multiple candidacies in the general election, the two top votegetters in Cleveland's non-partisan primary automatically go on to face one another in the general election, even if one of them receives more than 50% of the primary vote...
...activism actually began under former chiefs. "Policies tend to move rather slowly," he says. "In the course of a year, it's hard to say that it's this or that man who is responsible." But in Nixonian Washington, where politics has influenced practice in many supposedly non-partisan offices, Kauper's professionalism has won him the admiration of his department's 320 antitrust lawyers. "Kauper is seen here as competent and professional," says a department veteran, "and that's good for morale. He doesn't go checking politically before he does something...
Cambridge is overwhelmingly Democratic although technically City politics are non-partisan. In reality, Cambridge politics is fiercely competitive even though most of the City councillors are in agreement on several basic issues. It is hard, for example, to name a councillor who does not view Harvard University as one of the primary sources of the City's housing, unemployment, and tax-base problems...
These letters, spanning the years 1912 to 1936, punctuate a relationship evidently more than satisfying to its protagonists, but disturbing in the extreme to the non-partisan reader, and I would hope, to the partisan as well. Freud's egoism, his supreme indifference to anyone's work or to contributions other than his own, his condescendingly terse replies to Lou's "blithe optimism," as he terms it, suggest the reasons for the defections of Freud's less willing disciples. In the face of so little reception, of the glaring silences with which most of Salome's efforts to communicate...