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...association does not provide direct financial support to candidates, but its endorsed slate--advertised throughout Cambridge by billboards, mass mailings, and election-day handout cards--serves as a guide for a large number of uninformed voters. "There are thousands of people who pick up these things and vote for CCA candidates as the good guys," says one old hand...
...real size of this group of blind voters is unknown. Many people who followed the straight slate in the past are probably aware of the split and may change habits next November. The endorsement still has value, however, and most observers believe it is needed by three of the current CCA councillors: Coates, Mahoney, and Mrs. Wheeler. (Crane, it is conceded, can easily win without...
...underestimating the Governor. He has shown himself to be an effective political organizer. Immediately after his victory last November, he rudely shook Florida's somnolent Republican Party into wide-eyed activity. He installed an effective state chairman, began a successful fund-raising campaign, and provided his largely inexperienced slate of legislative candidates with local organizational support and professional opinion-sampling services. The polls reported that the voters were unhappy about crime, taxes and Lyndon Johnson; Republican candidates denounced all three in energetic unison. The Democrats, by contrast, were leaderless and spiritless...
...Crimson cause is by no means a lost one. B.U.'s slate is marred only by two losses at Denver and a tie with Cornell, but the wins over Harvard didn't come easily...
...proposal, that students be allowed to take one of their regular four courses pass-fail, was drafted by Martin Slate '67, HPC representative from Winthrop House, Bruce W. Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Standish H. Meacham, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House...