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Last week a dozen or more stout French hearts were beating a little faster at the thought of becoming Président de la République. An almost inaudible, all but invisible campaign was going on. Between Dec. 16 and Jan. 16, the members of the Council of the Republic (Senate) and National Assembly will meet at Versailles to choose a President to succeed the incumbent, adroit Vincent Auriol...
Former city manager John B. Atkinson sees "defeat of PR as a great setback to council-manager form of government in Cambridge." He does not think that PR will be defeated, however...
Chinese laundryman Richard Wong is against PR. "I like it the other way. That way each vote counts for a different man. All votes count...
Another storekeeper in a slum neighborhood differs on this last point. "I don't think much of McNamara. He's always hung around politics looking for graft. I don't like the CCA either. Let people use their own ideas. Beat PR and you beat CCA too. I think we should bring back the old kind of government. I'd like to so people in there who don't take orders from a group...
Asked what his customers think about the election, he remarked, "Half the people around here say, 'Oh nuts, election day . . . better get my beer, today, they'll be closed tomorrow.'"Dennis Sintiris, Cambridge barber for 36 years, likes PR and adds, "I gotta vote people I know. If I start vote everyone, won't do any good. Just gonna vote Santoro and Sullivan. No others." This is commonly known as bullet-voting...