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...should provide fodder for the campaign. Landlords may unite behind one or more candidates in an effort to overthrow the city's controversial rent control law. Some candidates may espouse or oppose the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's plan to convert Kendall Square into a commercial district in order to woo business or working class interests respectively. Cambridge's Plan E reform system of government and its complex proportional representation method of voting, which Independents and conservatives claim has worked against them in the past, could again be an issue this year...

Author: By Robert Mcdonald, | Title: Calamity Before the Storm | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

...already made administrative changes and, as one associate puts it, is "stirring up the reservation." He is also expanding the scope of research at S.K.I., and has taken over an entire floor that he plans to staff with the best immunology researchers he can find at the institute or woo away from other hospitals and universities. The lab, he says, will study just about everything immunological ?the immunodeficiency diseases that he calls "spontaneous experiments of nature"; allergies; and the relationship between aging and cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward Cancer Control | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

CURRIER HOUSE DINING ROOM. The Pumpkin Eater. (Anne Bancroft). March 2, 3, 8 and 10, $1. Short Films About Women: Madeleine, Windy Day, Woo Who May Wilson, March 4, 8, free--sponsored by Radcliffe Union of Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 3/1/1973 | See Source »

...soaping up his arm to plunge it into one troubled animal orifice or another. For Herriot, and the reader, the rewards of such expeditions range from delivery of little nibbling creatures who sometimes get stuck in the process of being born, to the periodic relief administered to Tricki Woo, a pampered little Pekingese constantly overfed by her mistress. To be fair, though, as Herriot invariably is, the struggling assistant vet is every bit as susceptible to .the sherry and smoked oysters supplied him by Tricki's dowager owner as the dog is to her indulgences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Now, Brown Cow? | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

When coaches from Yale, Stanford and the University of Virginia came to our high school to woo our basketball players, Kenny was dazzling, bringing the James Madison hoopsters into the limelight. Eliot advised Kenny to guard against the steak dinners at the Yale Club and contact Harvard. (Harvard has a rule forbidding coaches from courting perspective Crimson cagers.) Following his brother's suggestion, Wolfe applied to Harvard and was admitted...

Author: By Fran Schumer, | Title: Ken Wolfe: Brooklyn's Finest | 2/16/1973 | See Source »

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