Word: riper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current staff consists of three paid members ("put 'paid' in quotation marks," Forman advised) and three students who are working in return for room, travel costs, and $50/month living expenses. Forman, Nixon, Riper and Bill Thompson, the third "area coordinator," share two temporarily donated apartments near the headquarters...
...Kevin Riper '77 of Palo Alto, Calif. and Leverett House, says he is not headed for a political career. An Applied Math/Economics concentrator, Riper says he "wasn't originally interested in this field at all. But I saw the job listed in the OCS-OCL newsletter and decided, hey, this would be a good way to spend time off, as long as I would be doing something other than stuffing envelopes. I grew up in Palo Alto, a fairly wealthy suburb of San Francisco, then I went to Harvard--how 'elitist' can you get? I thought this would give...
Nixon and Riper agree it has been hard to adjust to their new life. "This is intense in a different way from academics," Nixon says. "When you're in an academic environment you can play all sorts of games--you can dodge things if they take too much time. Here, its an all-or-nothing deal--we win or lose, and if we lose we've all wasted months...
Nixon and Riper are officially "field coordinators," which entails setting up offices in different sections of the District, organizing volunteer work, targetting wards, gauging the candidate's strength in each area through statistical analysis of past election turnouts, and canvassing later in the spring. However, as Nixon said, "it all blends together," and everyone on the staff finds himself doing "everything" at onetime or another. The Celebrezze campaign is in the initial stages of setting up a solid groundwork and evaluating just where their candidate stands: in other words, guessing how much work they have ahead of them before June...
Despite such glum uniformity, literary oddities, spectacular unsellers, and even books that are totally bananas continue to appear. Here are three of the season's riper exotics...