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Dean Erwin N. Griswold announced that Louis A. Toepfer will succeed Dimmitt in the Secretary post, and Russell Peck will assume the alumni magazine duties...
Under the system of proportional representation, voters choose from among the 41 Council and 19 School Committee candidates by numerical preference. The counters will have to go over the ballots 41 times, Peck explained, before all the unsuccessful candidates are eliminated...
Because of the proportional representation type of voting done in Cambridge, there will be no results in the races for the City Council and the School Committee before tonight, according to Russell Peck, publicity director of the Cambridge Civic Association. Even if the counters work until midnight, Peck said, the unofficial results cannot be anticipated until Wednesday night...
...Cambridge, meanwhile, the Civic Association also predicted victory for its candidates. Russell Peck, CCA publicity director, said, "we have high hopes for success. We expect to get at least six out of nine candidates on the City Council and four out of six on the School Committee." The Cambridge results will not be known for at least a week, he pointed out, because of the proportional representation voting system...
Almost immediately, toothy Premier Dong found that he had chewed off a peck of troubles. When, last fortnight, he held his first Cabinet meeting (absent: President Ho), Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet...