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The main purpose of Cambridge's system of proportional representation is to give minorities a vote in city government. In the 22 years it has been in use, PR has proved complicated, slow, and all but impractical; as last week's City Council election demonstrated, however, PR does what it...
On the theory that social position should be subject to simple mathematical determination, McLandress has also devised a "multidimensional" formula that establishes a man's status in the American "sociometric peerage" on the basis of his calling, professional standing and prestigious activities, such as philanthropy (membership in the Kiwanis...
To some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that...
TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade.
Deeply disappointed, the Pennsy's new chairman, Stuart Saunders, 54, who had taken over the line on the very day of Orrick's pronouncement, and the Central's President Alfred Perlman denounced the Administration's stand as "impractical and unrealistic." The final decision about the merger...