Word: election
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...AMERICAN ELECTIONS are all too often triumphs of style, not substance. We elect our presidents not because we know what they stand for, but because of how well we think they stand: Are they leaders? Do they have moral courage? Can they instill trust in the people? But national candidates, with their image advisers and make-up men, are matched almost step for step by big city mayoral contenders, who play at being gruff or Irish or aggressive or "old town," while hiding issue stances, when they have them, safely away from the prying eyes of the electorate...
Last week, though, this system, which must elect a new city council in ten days, was threatened. A new group, calling itself the Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC) endorsed a slate of candidates for the office. What it didn't release were position papers or issue stances. We are "dedicated to dynamic government," they said, issuing calls for "intellectual open-mindedness." But they offered no position on rent control, no mention of condominium conversions. "We have no plans to issue a platform," Nancy Goetz, treasure of the CCC said last week...
...G.N.P. in 1964, was only 2.2% last year. While the U.S. percentage has been decreasing, West Germany's has averaged 3% annually since 1971, and last year increased to 3.2%. Japan's has risen from 1.3% in 1965 to 1.9% in 1977. Says Paul E. Gray, president-elect of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "We have lost a certain edge in technological innovation...
Kellogg's teammates' election of her as co-captain with fellow junior Chris Sailer this year surprsied and pleased her, named co-captain came as a real shock to me--I had fully expected the team to elect a senior for the job," Kellogg says...
...newly-formed group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for President Carter will coordinate the re-elect Carter campaign for all Boston-area universities and colleges, David J. Olivas '82, chairman and organizer of the committee, said yesterday...