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...effort to speed up its operations, the Cambridge City Council appointed an ad hoc committee to revise its rules last January. Under the leadership of Councillor G. d'Andelot Belin, the committee introduced new rules of procedure, and got rid of some unnecessary regulations and procedures...
...yesterday's meeting, he proposed a motion to honor the memory of Elihu Yale by naming the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets "Yale Square." Some memorial to Yale is long over-due in the city of his birth. Vellucci may have had some thoughts of embarassing Councillor Belin (Yale '39) by the measure; the fact that he didn't later his irresponsible style in submitting the measure leads one to suspect it. But if so, Cambridge is for once the gainer by Vellucci's petulance...
...Andelot Belin, another Council member, noted that the city is eager to have the thirteen acres developed so that the land will be taxable. "The city needs revenue. The City fathers see all those tax dollars going up the smokestack if Harvard gets the land...
...Monday's meeting, when Belin objected to considering a few routine matters which had not been submitted before last Thursday, Vellucci asked to have them all considered emergencies, and thus subject to immediate action. Belin finally rose to express "distress at the way the new rules are being side-stepped...
...several occasions, Vellucci has acted as if the old rules were still in effect, and when called to task by Belin or Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, the senior member of the rules' revision committee, has either moved for a suspension of the rules or, as on Monday, appealed to the Council for "emergency action...