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...committee race, four incumbents, including present chairman, John J. Kerrigan, from Dorchester, are seeking re-election to the five man committee. During the campaign there have been some rumors that various members of the school committee had gotten jobs in the school system for relatives, but few candidates made public accusations to this effect...
Vietnamization is Nixon's answer to the major problem his Administration now faces: how to convince a war-weary public that it is disengaging and yet convince Hanoi that...
...cent and Marchi 20 per cent-with a startlingly small 3 per cent undecided. Observers have occasionally faulted the News polling techniques, but all agree that the straw poll has been and will continue to be pretty accurate. If it isn't the perfect measure of existing public opinion, at least it does such a good job of convincing its readers as to constitute a self-fulfilling prophesy. The News is that much revered and trusted (its news coverage, that is, not its editorials), and the straw poll has long served as the climax of New York's election battles...
...success or failure of America's efforts to combat the apocalyptic cycle of waste and congestion appears to depend on the willingness of imaginative and enlightened public figures to lend their time to such banalities as sanitation, pollution, congestion, and conservation-and finally population growth...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...