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Owens has shown little willingness to compromise so far. Ackermann and the two other liberals--Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff--are firm in their stand behind Peterson. So Corcoran continues in his position as City Manager, probably finding it difficult to suppress guffaws at the liberals' fratricide. And Graham and many citizens of Cambridge wonder what they did to deserve this mess...
...deadlocks over the appointment of a new City Manager and school Superintendent. Wylie charged certain politicians have agreed that either the new manager or new superintendent must be black. He added that he did not think the black community intended this to happen. Wylie supports Bair, but Mayor Ackermann and Charles M. Pierce, the black liberal on the School Committee, favor Cheatham. Peter G. Gesell, the fourth member of the liberal majority on the Committee, appears to be neutral...
Members also hoped that Mayor Barbara S. Ackermann (then Cambridge City Councilwoman), who had contacted Cronin and urged him to recognize HSWOC, would become permanent members of the new union...
More recently, striking waitresses met with Ackermann and presented her with charges that Cronin's Restaurant violates the state sanitary codes. At the meeting the waitresses said that David Harris president of the Cambridge Civic Association had agreed to sit on a committee to mediate the strike. Ackermann said she would be willing to sit on a committee to investigate the breakdown of negotiations between Cronin and the HSWOC...
Erdmann said that the group had approached Ackermann because they felt the mayor would have a special interest in the working conditions of women. "She's not a stupid woman," Erdmann said. "She can see when people are using connections to circumvent...