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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...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Politics on Location: | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Politics on Location: | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Politics on Location: | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Top Bananas | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...last, in the 20th century, man realizes that his days have grown far too short. He is only a vessel of the life force that is evolving along "the path to godhead," and if civilization is to advance or even survive, he must learn to live to a riper, wiser age. Over the next 300 centuries, he begins working his way back to Adam's 1,000 years, or at least to Methuselah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The London Stage: Metaphysical Tinker Bell | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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