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...Marie Orben, president of the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA), could not be reached for comment yesterday, but a message on her answering machine said teachers met in front of at least three city schools yesterday morning, then marched in together before classes began...
...only went out this morning," said Robert Richards, a member of the union's board of directors. He said the picketing was "fine" this morning. But Richards would not comment further on the teachers' plans and referred all further questions to Orben...
...pickets took place in front of the Harrington and Longfellow schools as well as Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, according to Orben's telephone message. The CTA also aired radio commercials on at least six stations, according to Orben's answering machine...
...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...
...court jesters believe jokes are being overused. "I think it's a mistake for [Reagan] to use humor as much as he does," says Orben, who worked full time for Gerald Ford. "Humor is great, but people now want solutions." Yet they also like to laugh. "Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself," E.B. White wrote, "he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor." So why shouldn't the Commander in Chief have one too? Says Drayne: "Presidents without a sense of humor make me nervous...