Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some claim that the change would make bona fide issues a real part of future campaigns. Deprived of the facility of personally cultivating his own small nitch of support, the politician would have to go beyond handclasping and backslapping. Yet, it can be argued that Cambridge is not all that big, that politicians are probably capable of merely expanding their personality-based campaigns, and that, even if some rudimentary issues do develop, they will be more coverups for private factional squabbles...
This style of politics is highly personalized. The skillful councillor has a firm grasp on his "number one votes," and election-time does not see the swaying of large numbers of people from one candidate to another. At a recent political rally, one politician surveyed the crowd and commented: "There's not a person in this room who doesn't already know who his 'number one vote' is going to. You can't be active in Cambridge politics and stay uncommitted...
...what makes the 1965 race exciting and tight? A man named William Maher. "If Maher weren't in it," says one politician, "there wouldn't be a campaign...
...other incumbents is a prime candidate for elimination. "What you have," observes one politician simply, "is six candidates for five seats." Two of the five threatened office-holders are CCA-endorsed Thomas Coates, a Negro, and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, the professor from M.I.T. Mahoney ran ninth last time, and, on the face of it, might be considered the most vulnerable. But remember one important feature of PR: candidates siphon their votes mainly, from relatively restricted areas or groups. The plain truth is that neither Mahoney or Coates draw their major support from the same elements that Maher must...
...reason was simple. Kasavubumust run for the presidency again in February, and Tshombe, the Congo's most popular politician and the big winner of this spring's parliamentary elections, was after his job. Despite his unquestioned success as Premier, therefore, Tshombe had to go. "The mission I conferred upon him in 1964 has been completed," Kasavubu explained to a joint session of the new Parliament. "Therefore, out of respect for the habitual rules of democracy and since his government has not resigned on its own initiative, I have today put an end to its functions...