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While Moscow is still sensitive about any nascent kult lichnosti, or personality cult, Brezhnev is nonetheless receiving a public relations buildup not seen since Khrushchev's time. In the recent one-slate Supreme Soviet elections, Brezhnev was referred to as the "first candidate" and as "head of the Politburo"-an interesting title since the Politburo supposedly has no head. If there is opposition to détente in Moscow, Brezhnev has effectively silenced it, at least publicly, and even those who are thought to be ideological hardliners, like Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, now publicly...
...sides began to form--primarily between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the conservative Independent slate, with some noise from the radical Grass Roots Organization--it became apparent that the CCA slate was being hurt as much by the incumbent CCA majority council's failure to appoint a new city manager and the inordinate amount of time it took to reach any decision at all on the matter, as by the internal political splits which resulted in the formation of the GRO with Saundra Graham at the head of its slate...
Still, partially out of force of habit, the caucuses stirred themselves out of hibernation briefly this spring to participate halfheartedly in the council elections. Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, put together a conservative slate in consultation with, he said "10 or 20 or 30 people." The liberals, meanwhile, were caught napping and had to get Rosovsky to add liberal nominees to the ballot...
When the results came in, it turned out that the Faculty, in the lightest turnout ever in a council election, swept in most of the conservative slate, but the liberals seemed fairly pleased with the success of their last-ditch effort...
...members of the council are: George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, a member of the Maass slate but well-liked by liberals; William N. Lipscomb, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and a conservative; James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department and a conservative; Irvin DeVore, professor of Anthropology, a liberal upset victor over the Maass candidate Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology; Sydney J. Freedberg '36, professor of Fine Arts and a conservative; Elisabeth Allison, assistant professor of Economics and a member of neither ticket; and Linda Seidel, lecturer on Fine Arts, from the Maass slate. The liberal...