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...places a premium on "number one" votes and the surest way to get them is by appealing to a small but solid block of voters-often the residents of one particular area of the City. Though the City's elections are non-partisan, attempts are sometimes made to arrange electoral coalitions. The Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), for example, encourages its supporters to give all their votes to endorsed candidates pledging to follow its "good government" politics. Yet each of the CCA councillors-who always number four-can be identified, without too much difficulty, with one or more particular blocs...
...market for skills; the low birth rate during the Depression has created a shortage of men between 30 and 40 years old. Companies are forced to promote younger and younger men to fill the ranks of middle managers. In addition, the tremendous changes in technology have put a premium on up-to-date education, and that also favors young...
Most of Nixon's successes and failures might have been predicted from his past record and his campaign statements. What could not have been anticipated is his erratic performance as an administrator. Few men know Washington better than Nixon, and few place a higher premium on order. The President retains his image of methodical competence. Yet the Administration appears in many ways to be maladroit and insensitive. More and more, comments TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, "there is an aura of ineptitude growing here that could spread to the nation. There is a growing feeling...
...indeed paradoxical that in a society that places such a premium on all sorts of privacy-private swimming pool, private entrance, private patio, private terrace, etc.-one nevertheless would turn one's bosom into a community chest. Could all this nudity be overcompensation for all the other privacy with its resulting isolation which affluence provides...
...eight-mile pack trip to the lip of the can yon takes three hours, but this is just the first leg. Havasupai in need of sup plies must travel 120 miles to Kingman, Ariz. From there merchants will ship goods back to the canyon at a 40% to 60% premium...