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Alewife, in the northwestern end of Cambridge, is, in sports, and industrial ghetto, 350-odd acres of cracking pavement, dead end streets and decaying factories. On the other side of the city, where Simplex Wire and Cable once dominated the Cambridgeport neighborhood, trash collects in vacant lots where giant pools of steel were stored. Crumbling, vacant brick warehouses stand silent; barbed wire fences guard nothing...
...lucky breaks on April 4 in Evanston, a wealthy suburb of Chicago. That afternoon, two men wearing dark coats, sunglasses and fedoras stole a white van at gunpoint from the local office of Budget Rent-a-Car. Half an hour later, police spotted the truck on the campus of Northwestern University and arrested a man and a woman who were carrying pistols...
...apparent results. Contended Newton Minow, Chicago lawyer and former FCC commissioner: "It's an atrocious system guaranteed to give us bad choices because the broad center of the country does not participate in the primary process." Complained Louis Masotti, director of the Center for Urban Affairs at Northwestern University: "It's terribly confusing and is a period of unusual and cruel punishment for the American public, the press and the candidates." Political scientists began to bring up some long familiar ideas: a single nation wide primary, a series of regional primaries, a return to giving party leaders...
...budget in the coming fiscal year, a course urged by all Republican candidates. Carter is an undeniably deft-and extremely lucky-politician. He also is a relatively known quantity in the White House, whereas the inexperienced Reagan would require a definite leap of faith by voters supporting him. Says Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti: "There's a variation on the old cliché: you don't change horses' asses in midstream. You've got one, and at least you know its contours...
...high rates. Financial experts fear that many small and even some big corporations, unable to continue borrowing, will go bankrupt. Their demise in turn may shake some thinly capitalized banks that will be stuck with "problem" loans. Says Don Jacobs, dean of the Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University: "We are headed for a paralysis of the financial markets. We will see red ink throughout the financial industry. It could be a disaster. For the first time in my life I am really concerned...