Word: cca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City elections, five candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association won seats on the City Council. It was only the second time since 1953 that liberals had gained control of the Council. And in the School Committee election, CCA liberals won three of six places, creating a situation in which reform-minded Mayor Barbara Ackermann could break the tie in favor of the liberals. The Mayor of Cambridge is permitted to vote in both the City Council and the School Committee...
Councillor Henry F. Owens III is the only one of the CCA-endorsed Councillors who refuses to vote for Peterson. Yet at a special Council meeting on May 4, Owens said that if his candidate, Johnson, were allowed an interview with the citizens' panel and those citizens still preferred Peterson, then he too would vote for Peterson...
Johnson, the black Deputy City Manager of Kansas City, Mo., is Owens's candidate, Peterson, the white former City Administrator of New Brunswick. N.J., has long been the choice of Ackermann and fellow CCA-Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff...
...this year a liberal dose of masochism has made the debates even livelier. Things were supposed to be different when the CCA-endorsed ticket won a majority of the Council seats in November and elected Barbara Ackermann as Mayor. However, as this week's meetings demonstrate, all is not well in the liberal camp...
...Fall, the CCA submitted a list of candidates to the Overseer Nominating Committee and considered running an independent slate if no one they suggested were accepted. The Nominating Committee selected Foster and Atkins from the list...