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...strengthen the community was what to say about Cambridge. The University's relations with the City have been improving in recent years, and there have been signs of a thaw in the Cambridge School Committee's traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last 15 years has been led by professors with school...
...hard School Committeemen such as James Fitzgerald, who oppose the portable classrooms per se, may attempt to block approval of these sites. The School Committee should ignore them, and accept Harvard's offer. If there is to be a final round in the portable classrooms fight, it should be fought in the open, when the City debates the appropriation for the classrooms. The quibble over site selection is now pointlessly delaying the construction of the new Houghton School...
...than three million registered Democratic voters simply do not count for much in the June 18 delegate primary. In theory, they should control 188 of the 190 delegate votes--since they elect three delegates in each of the state's 41 Congressional districts and also choose the 300 state committeemen who then fill 65 more delegate seats when they meet in Albany. In theory, only the two seats given to national committeemen are pre-ordained. In practice, however, the delegation is being shaped right now in the proverbial back rooms...
Good writing accounts for about 10% of the total acreage in issue number 19. Skip Ascheim's front-page report on proceedings of the Massachusetts Legislature's education committee is successful satire because it maintains an objectivity which most Avatar writing never achieves. Noting that few of the committeemen investigating misconduct of University of Massachusetts students could "speak English." Ascheim observes...
Bowing to union objections to its outside contracting practices, the company promised to hire in-plant workers whenever it can and if it has to farm work out, to be sure to use union shops. Another key issue was Reuther's demand that company-paid U.A.W. committeemen be allowed to work full time on union business-as they do at Ford and Chrysler-without having to put m any time at their regular jobs. To solve that, G.M. agreed to free some committie altogether while paring on-the-job time for others...