Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29--who had been in partnership with Crane even when Crane threw John Atkinson out of the city manager post and replaced him with a hand-picked selection, John J. Curry '19--was assembling a coalition of Cambridge Civic Association reformers and independents who were getting weary of Crane's one-man rule...
...this vacuum that Crane decided to fill. The CCA backed candidate fought his way onto the council and with the help of political and collegiate pal Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29, a man with Crane-like credentials, wasted no time in manipulating Cambridge's first city manager, John Atkinson, into making 13 years of yes-man decisions...
...Chamber of Commerce memberships to the city I was really selling Townsend,"--full into the Crane fold. He and the rest of the Harvard Square businessmen--at that time native Cambrigians, residences in Cambridge being perhaps the most important prerequisite to community power--played ball with Crane. And through Atkinson, Crane reciprocated, cutting taxes when every other town's bills were skyrocketing...
...Gordon Atkinson '77, the freshman council representative who originally proposed the amendment, said that he had hoped to work with Adams, Quincy and Lowell on a bargaining level. "I don't think that any of the three Houses would be swamped if they all opened up and changed their policies simultaneously," he said...
...attacking wounded male lion. Members of his party were able to radio the East African Flying Doctor Service, which dispatched a light plane to an airfield in the bush. The plane airlifted Roethe to a modern hospital in Nairobi, where he was patched up and sent home to Fort Atkinson, Wis., to regale friends and relatives with tales of his adventures...