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...issue came up late in the evening as Mayor Barbara Ackermann moved reconsideration of last Thursday night's vote that defeated her order stating that the Council would offer the position of City Manager to Howard C. (Neil) Peterson...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: City Council Again Fails To Elect City Manager | 5/23/1972 | See Source »

...very end of the meeting, Mayor Barbara Ackermann announced to those in the audience who had been waiting for some mention of the search for a new City Manager that the Council had not yet received "an important phone call," and thus the matter would be postponed for at least another week...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Cambridge Council Postpones Choice of New City Manager | 5/9/1972 | See Source »

After the Council adjourned. Councillor Henry F. Owens III disclosed that a telephone call was momentarily expected from James Johnson, the black deputy city manager of Kansas City, Mo, Owens has apparently succeeded in forcing three of his liberal colleagues on the Council--Ackermann, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff--to reconsider Johnson for the City Manager...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Cambridge Council Postpones Choice of New City Manager | 5/9/1972 | See Source »

Johnson was interviewed by the liberal councillors on April 2 but he did not participate in the citizen interviews. Owens has charged that Duehay. Moncreiff and Ackermann told him they were "locked in" to voting for Howard C. "Neil" Peterson, former city administrator of New Brunswick, N.J. Peterson, only 28 years old, is the favorite...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Cambridge Council Postpones Choice of New City Manager | 5/9/1972 | See Source »

Early in the week, Ackermann proposed that President Nixon be billed for the recent mini-riot in Harvard Square. Her motion, not entirely a symbolic protest, was defeated 7-1. Outraged by this suggestion, two conservative councillors proposed a resolution calling on Ackermann to resign as Mayor...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: A Liberal Dose of Masochism | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

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