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...about the outcome of this battle. One, the Chicken Little crowd, is convinced that the roof is falling in and that all the controls and ordinances will only slow the collapse, perhaps allowing a little creative planning and partial coping. The others, fewer in number, think perhaps the status quo can be retained, that Cambridge may remain an anomalous mix of the wealthy and the poor, factory worker and professor...
...cent approval rating in the polls is serious enough to justify scrapping an incumbent president, or whether such a decision requires a scandal of Watergate proportions. With an open convention rule defeated, delegates are bound not only to candidates, but also to a stifling--perhaps even intolerable--status quo...
...Washington, asserts Peters, are mainly concerned with their own survival and advancement. To that end, they all plug into "survival networks," exchanging favors to ensure that they will stay in power no matter what work they do or fail to do. Usually nothing so crass as a quid pro quo is involved, much less outright bribery, just an atmosphere of mutual backscratching...
Congress could shake up the bureaucracy, says Peters, but it has too much of a stake in the status quo. "The more bureaucrats do wrong to the public," writes Peters, "the more favors Congressmen can do for their constituents as they right the wrongs-or as they appear to try to right them." They may not actually help, but they can always denounce the offending bureaucrat on the floor of Congress and then send a copy of their remarks to their constituents...
...blacks to buy their own homes, have either not materialized or largely failed. Organizers of the African National Congress, the outlawed black political movement, operate with increasing ease. Meanwhile, the colored population of 3 million, which once supported the country's 4.3 million whites in perpetuating the status quo, has become politicized and appears increasingly disposed to make common cause with the 20 million blacks. For the past two months, in every major urban area, colored protesters organized an almost total school boycott of the sort the blacks have repeatedly staged in the past...