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...vote to substitute the FAR of six failed on a 4-4 tie with Councillor Barbara Ackermann voting present. Then, only Hayes, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Mayor Walter J. Sullivan voted in favor of the request for a FAR of six. Councillor Thomas W. Danehy voted present, and the other five councillors voted...
...three former DeGuglielmo supporters still on the council--Bernard Goldberg, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Cornelia B. Wheeler--voted to hire Sullivan. They were joined by Thomas H. D. Mahoney, and Barbara Ackermann, both of whom had voted to fire DeGuglielmo, saying at the time that he lacked the professional expertise needed for the manager...
...Mahoney, an M.I.T. professor endorsed by the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association, extracted an "agreed memorandum" from the other four anti-DeGuglielmo councillors. They pledged themselves to a 90-day nation-wide search for a "professional" City manager. Besides Mahoney, only one other member of the five--Barbara Ackermann -- enthusiastically favored the search. The other three--Crane, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Thomas W. Danehy--reportedly went along with the memorandum as the price of getting rid of DeGuglielmo...
...called "firing five" are, however, themselves divided. At one pole, Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment...
...Some of the requests were for things which any city should do anyway," Councillor Barbara Ackermann said. She said she felt that some of the demands--such as those for more street cleaning and recreation--could be met immediately. Others, such as increased recruiting of blacks for city jobs, would take more time, she said...