Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian economists made a whirlwind tour of the Business School and were dinner guests at the Faculty Club during their five-day stay in Boston...
...Proportional Representation, the Cambridge method of voting for Council and School Committee. A single ballot lists the names of all candidates in alphabetical order (there are no primary elections) and without regard to party affiliation or other endorsement. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice with a 2, etc., expressing as many preferences as he wishes. After each election a quota is established representing the smallest number of votes that will be counted to elect the proper number of people to each body. Then each candidate who achieves this quota is declared elected, until all places...
...Russians arrived Thursday evening from New York and saw banks, insurance companies, and industrial firms for the next four days. They left for Detroit Tuesday, after the Business School tour...
...smearer, the emotionally tinged campaign. Physically, the CCA accomplishes its goal through a proportional representation system of voting, where voters select their candidates in order of preference. Through the complicated counting process the CCA finds its elan vital--representation on the nine-man City Council and the six-man School Committee...
...though, is directed to electing a mayor this January. No matter which CCA candidates win Council positions, the Association's most important task as a unit comes in selecting the Mayor, for he sets the government's tone, and, more practically, casts deciding votes on both the Council and School Committee...