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Cambridge will elect at large nine city councillors and six members to the School Committee (the seventh member is the Mayor, chosen by the councillors from among themselves). Independents are hoping to defeat the fractured coalition of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal good-government organization, and regain control of the two legislative bodies. The CCA won a narrow and contested victory at the polls two years...
Even though the major controversies of last year over the appointments of a new City Manager and School Superintendent have been resolved, the coals continue to smolder and, on occasion, a spark ignites. The CCA won one and lost one last season. But in succeeding to replace former School Superintendent Frank Frisoli '35 with the highly-touted Alflorence Cheatham of Chicago, it aroused the ire of half of Cambridge -- a Pyrrhic political victory at best. In losing the City Manager fiasco, the CCA also lost its majority on the City Council. Councillor Henry F. Owens III, a black attorney...
...political bedfellows continues and there are few Council meetings during which some bitterness does not break the surface. Shortly after the city manager controversy last fall, the Council formed a subcommittee on cable television at Owens' suggestion. Contrary to normal Council procedure, Mayor Barbara Ackermann, a member of the CCA slate, passed over Owens and named Councillor Robert Moncreiff chairman of the subcommittee. Owens protested loudly and Ackermann replied that the maneuver constituted a "studied insult." Since that time Owens has attempted through several different motions to have himself named chairman. His proposals have usually wound up sitting...
...Committee of Concerned Alumni, which has often supported its own candidates, did not petition to have its own slate on the ballot. Peter D. Shultz '52, acting general secretary of the Alumni, said yesterday that CCA "could not find too much to object to in the slate offered...
Running for her third term on the City Council in November 1971 on the platform of rent control, Ackermann, along with four other CCA candidates, won and became the senior councillor of the majority party. In Cambridge the mayor is elected by the city councillors rather than by an at large election. As the member of her party with the most votes, Ackermann was elected mayor by a five to four vote in January. "I didn't really worry about running for mayor at all until it happened. I first thought of it when someone accused me of politicking...