Word: brode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incumbents on the Cambridge Convention '75 slate, particularly David Clem and John Brode '52, would also serve well as members of the council...
...Brode traces his ideas about government to being "impressed" with Communist-run villages in Frances, where he lived as an exile. "I'm not a liberal, but I don't think the radicals would claim me. I'm definitely left-wing, but I think that you can get something done through the political process...
...commercial developers. Independents focus instead on the need to bring businesses and high rent housing into Cambridge to increase the property tax base, a task they say would be facilitated by the end of rent control and the curtailment of downzoning. At the other extreme, non-incumbent John Brode '52 (CC '75), formerly a co-founder with Saundra Graham of the radical Grass Roots Organization, points to what he calls a "causal link between high rise buildings and crime," and argues that tax dollars from development are eaten up by the cost of providing increased city services. Brode favors abolishing...
...perennial whipping boys, the universities. When it comes to Harvard, the candidates trip over one another in their anxiousness to establish their credentials as bona fide critics of University expansion and the University's failure to increase its "in lieu of tax" payments to the city. Some candidates, like Brode, say that a simple shift in the attitude of University officials towards the community would go a long way towards relieving town-gown tensions. "The scientists at MIT are far more humane than the humanists at Harvard" when it comes to working with the community, Brode said. Harvard administrators...
...unseating of incumbents takes place this fall, the candidates to watch as the election returns drift slowly in (with PR voting, it often takes a week to figure out the winners) will be the four non-incumbents on the CC '75 slate. Of the four-John Brode, David Clem, Eric Davin and Mary Ann Preusser-each claims that he or she will be the lucky winner if CC '75 picks up a fifth seat, and the complexity of Cambridge voting makes it hard to tell the bluffers from the true believers. All four, of course, embrace the CC '75 platform...