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...cello playing, or even isolated ingredients. Rostropovich is not only a great musician, but also a great charmer, and one can never gues what means he'll use to captivate and educate his audience. (At a Juilliard master class last fall, Rostropovich asked the audience to allow him his "quota of silliness." He filled at least that.) At any rate, the class will undoubtedly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, if only to hear him fiddle with the instrument...
Crane showed just how far the mayoralty can be parlayed into getting those crucial top votes in Cambridge's proportional-representation elections. After getting elected mayor in 1950-51, he doubled the necessary quota of number-one votes needed to get a seat on the following year's council...
After more than five years of lawsuits aimed at ending discriminatory hiring practices, a federal judge last week imposed a stunningly sweeping quota system on Chicago's police department. Within the next 90 days, ruled U.S. District Court Judge Prentice H. Marshall, the department must hire 400 new officers-50% of them black and Hispanic males, 16.5% women and 33.5% white males. The judge also imposed a similar quota on future hiring. Until the city complies, added Marshall, it cannot touch U.S. revenue-sharing funds that were withheld from Chicago since December 1974 under a separate but related suit...
...police chiefs elsewhere, few of whom can match Chicago's record: 18% minority representation in its 13,500-man force. The Chicago Tribune, while editorially criticizing the city for its failure to produce a workable plan, called Marshall's solution "absurdly arbitrary." Grumbled Mayor Richard Daley: "A quota system is alien to America. We will fight this as long as we're around. What about the Polish, the Italians, the Jews-and don't forget the American Indians. They were here first." What probably irritated the aging (73) but still feisty Daley even more is that...
...part of the general movement, begun in 1964 and accelerated sharply in 1972, to assure women and minorities more delegate seats at the national convention. After those changes angered party leaders and George McGovern lost a lopsided election, the rules were modified to eliminate what had become a virtual quota system of delegate selection. But the resulting rules for conducting state caucuses and conventions were so complex that many state legislatures threw up their hands and decided to hold primary elections instead...