Word: showings
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...Citizens Party sounds extremist only when it proposes "citizen control of major investment and resource decisions." But surveys show the public resents both big business and big government. The Citizens Party is on the right track in advocating decentralized energy sources and decentralized control of business as means for people to regain a sense of power over their own lives. The party's task is to demonstrate that decentralized power does not spell a denuded standard of living...
Returns from three of the city's wards show that voters are favoring all of the referendum questions by at least 2-1 margins. The questions call for an end to licensing of nuclear power plants; protection of the "historic scale and character" of Harvard, Porter, Central, Inman and Kendall Squares; enactment of a national health insurance plan; support for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and placement of zoning restrictions on Cambridge institutions, including Harvard...
Every ballot, every number, has a history--many snarled in the arcane twists of Cambridge ethnic, liberal and regional politics. But added together, they show patterns that prove the similarity of a lot of the individual histories. The numbers trace the outline of electoral stability, eroding and shifting around the edges like an island in mid-river...
Having convinced the skeptical fans that it could score, Harvard then pre-empted its regularly scheduled game for a special presentation of The Richie Horner Show. The 5-ft., 8-in. senior whirlwind began a 126-yd., three touchdown day that moved into third place on the all-time Harvard receiving list...
...sheer fact of the politics-show biz mingling may be no cause for worry. Still, too intimate a consortium would do the country no good. The electorate should remain a skeptical and demanding constituency, but the ubiquitous looming of star performers does tend to turn it into a distracted audience. The capacity to achieve effects by glitter and glamour is not likely to inspire politics toward greater integrity. Nor are theatrical atmospherics apt to move the public to examine more soberly issues that too few Americans take seriously even...