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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly twenty years Cambridge elections have lacked the personal clash of two candidates putting not only their personalities but also their beliefs into clear opposition. Since the adoption of Plan E in 1945, no elected official has been able to say with certainty that his election represents general public acceptance of his policies...
...Cambridge voters, it must be admitted, demand progress; most like conditions the way they are, or feel that political action can do nothing positive and may make everything more difficult. Politicians, sensitive to this sentiment, oppose actions with uncertain social effects. If there is no public outcry for Urban Renewal, they think, why should we risk our future by agreeing to tear down slum dwellings? After all, voters live there...
...this situation there can, of course, be compromise. One sees no relatively important compromises worked out on the floor of the Council; perhaps both sides feel that they should not deal with the enemy in public. Eric H. Hanson, executive secretary of the CCA, and a regular observer of the Council in action, insists, however, that there have been frequent and important concessions by both sides paving the way for major steps. These seem to have been made informally in discussions between individual members and perhaps with the Mayor as mediator...
First, opponents of NSA claim that the Association is viewed by the public as a lobby group for a monolithic student opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...
...This company hires a regular chamber orchestra to play for its workers, as a regular part of their employee public relations." As attractive as this position may have seemed, he turned it down to accept his present dual job of conducting the HRO and teaching a graduate course...