Word: cca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Election Commission finished counting council ballots late Saturday night, the following candidates had won election: Walter J. Sullivan (Ind.), Alfred E. Vellucci (Ind.), Thomas W, Danehy (Ind.), Edward A. Crane '35 (CCA), Barbara Ackermann (CCA), Daniel J. Clinton (Ind.), Robert Moncreiff (CCA), Thomas H. D. Mahoney (CCA), and Thomas Coates (CCA...
Elected School committeemen are: James F. Fitzgerald (Ind.), David Wylie (COA), Francis H. Duehay '55 (CCA), Joseph E. Maynard (Ind.), Donald A, Fantini (CCA), and Lorraine A, Butler (CCA...
...CCA endorsed candidate who failed to win was Harvard Ed School student Francis X. Hayes. Though Hayes ran fifth in the initial count, he failed to pick up strength as weaker candidates were eliminated, and their votes redistributed according to the City's Proportional Representation electoral system...
...observers began analyzing the election returns, they seemed to agree on only one thing: the turnabout-achieved by only narrow margins in both races-reflected the popularity of individual CCA-endorsed candidates rather than any major increase in the CCA's overall voting strength. "Each [of the CCA councillors] made it on his own; they didn't run as a team," said one veteran city politician...
Several of the CCA-endorsed candi-dates enjoyed substantial bases of support of their own outside the CCA strongholds among academic and middle-class voters, Coates, for example, polled well among his fellow blacks, while Fantini-whose brother unsuccessfully ran for School Committee in 1967 as an independent-received a large portion of his votes from Italian East Cambridge, where most CCA candidates do poorly...