Word: cca
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This year the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate is sponsoring five candidates on a platform of voluntary integration and commitment to affirmative action. The two new candidates, Attles and Blackman, have made minority problems their special concern, citing the high percentage of minority dropouts and the tracking of minority students away from career training...
...CCA incumbents, Sara Mae Berman, former world record holder in the marathon, is known as the champion of equal spending for women's athletics, and Glenn S. Koocher '71 as spokesman for special students with learning and physical disabilities. Alice K. Wolf, a graduate of the Kennedy School, is leading the fight against patronage in school administration appointments...
There are eight independent candidates, including three incumbents, in the running. Veterans Joseph E. Maynard and Donald A. Fantini joined with Mayor Thomas Danehy last term to form the conservative bloc, voting against the CCA members on issues like school reorganization. Maynard watches out for vocational education, and Fantini protects bilingual programs while forcing the council to spend carefully. The third incumbent, David J. Holway, has provided the swing vote between independent and convention blocs, and calls himself the "boat person" of Cambridge politics...
...fans--those who sit in the expensive box seats along Brattle St. and the low-rent bleachers around the rest of the city--root for the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) squad, the New York Yankees of Cambridge hardball politics...
...CCA, it's been largely business as usual. The 40-year-old "progressive party" endorsed its slate in a well-attended summer convention. Many of the names were the same as two years ago, and the tactics are similar-city-wide mailings, printed slate cards which volunteers will hand to voters as they enter the polls, and a superb fundraising machine...