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...years there has been a policy at 362 Green Street--the offices of the Cambridge Election Commission--of refusing to register non-resident students. This was true particularly after the radicalism of the '60s, when politicians were fearful of the students' revolutionary zeal. Asked in 1971 why students shouldn't be allowed to register, the head of the election commission replied flatly, "Why, we are in a place where the students would take over...
Dangerously Close. Meanwhile, in their zeal to boost profits, many corporations have raised prices of manufactured goods to levels that are dangerously close to being noncompetitive in world markets. As a result, Canada's drive to export more machinery, electronic equipment and other finished goods-a cornerstone of its economic policy-is faltering. The nation imported $9 billion more in manufactured goods than it exported last year; that deficit may well climb above $10 billion...
Like Barton, Lawrence A. Goshon believes in the organizational efficacy of religious zeal. Indeed, Goshorn, 40, chairman of a minicomputer manufacturing company named General Automation, Inc., of Anaheim, Calif., two months ago called together 1,000 of his employees to tell them he was dedicating General Automation to Chris Goshorn, a Southern Baptist who says he was sitting in his front yard one evening in 1969 when he quietly discovered Jesus, read a Bible passage asking his people to "turn from their wicked ways" (II Chronicles 7:14). Some in the startled crowd recall him saying, "The company...
...Socialists and other moderates looked upon these developments with apprehension. Their only hope for curbing the excesses of leftist zeal was the promised elections for the Constituent Assembly. Indeed, when the elections were held on April 25, the Socialists won 38% of the vote and the Popular Democrats 26%. The Communists polled a mere 12.5%. This was a personal triumph for Scares, 50, the Socialists' warm, gregarious chief, who had mingled easily with crowds as he campaigned across the country...
...alves can be counted on to represent those interests energetically, indeed relentlessly. Both admirers and detractors agree that Gonçalves is consumed by his work. He is known as "the man who never sleeps," perhaps as much for his insomnia as his administrative zeal. At his office in the São Bento Palace, he drives his staff relentlessly and has a reputation for exploding in anger when dissatisfied with its work -although he is regarded as a somewhat slapdash executive himself. Devoted to his family (two children), Gonçalves relaxes by swimming at the deserted, rocky Guincho...