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...question of PR, which was placed on the ballot and publicized by the Sullivan forces largely to draw attention from the first referendum, the vote was 18,000 to 13,000 in favor of retaining this system of balloting...
...Referendum One; I think it will carry seven or eight to one," Dean Shaplin declared last night. "The Referendum on proportional representation will be very close, but I think we will win because of the heavy feelings on the first one." The CCA has fought for retention of PR...
DeGuglielmo said he has been studying this system of voting since the mayor, who made the anti-PR motion, "was get- ting out of swaddling clothes...
Although at first an opponent of PR, DeGuglielmo said he has since become convinced that all groups in the city have received good representation in the Council since this system has been used here. "We've had intellectual minorities represented in this Council who could not get elected under the plurality form of voting," he concluded...
Councilor Charles A. Watson followed DeGuglielmo in a speech attacking PR. Watson scored the Cambridge Civic Association for "capitalizing on this un-American way of voting," which, he claimed, is based largely on emotional appeal