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...mysteries and realities of city politics, the University carefully refrains from taking official stands. Any Harvard support for a particular candidate or issue immediately arouses deep antagonisms, especially among less privileged, less informed voters. Nonetheless, the University is by nature obligated to protect its own interests, which generally correspond to those...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: The CCA, the College, and Politics: Cambridge Nears Biennial Election | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

...include former Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, and Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler. Present Mayor Thomas M. McNamara often voted with these Councillors during his two-year term, frequently giving the CCA a slim majority on the Council. Yet solidarity among the CCA bloc is by no means assured, and is frequently non-existent...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: The CCA, the College, and Politics: Cambridge Nears Biennial Election | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

...Lynch, the oldest member of the Council, has been around so many years that sheer momentum will probably elect him. A formerly CCA-endorsed candidate (he has since bolted), Lynch is noted for his reactionary stands on fluoridation, Communism, and spending. Some observers think Lynch has the least chance among the incumbents to gain re-election, because, they say, many of his supporters are dying...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: The CCA, the College, and Politics: Cambridge Nears Biennial Election | 10/29/1959 | See Source »

Representing the Cambridge "Committee on Better Teeth for Our Children," Mrs. Dean A. Clark, wife of Dean A. Clark, clinical professor of Preventive Medicine, contacted Mott and urged him to form a group to spread pro-fluoridation propaganda among Cambridge voters, according to Mott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Group Backs Addition of Fluoride To Water Supply | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

First, opponents of NSA claim that the Association is viewed by the public as a lobby group for a monolithic student opinion that does not really exist. But there is on many vital issues a majority consensus among American students that can be valuably asserted. As a safeguard against false unanimity, though, NSA has provided that should a college disagree with majority resolutions, it can register a written vote of dissent; Harvard can go on record as disagreeing with any actions of NSA it finds noxious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for NSA | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

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