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Councilors Alfred E. Vellucci and Leonard J. Russell are without question the two top contenders for the spot. Both are Independents, though Vellucci traditionally acts as the swing vote on the nine-member council, joining with the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) bloc to support the city's controversial rent control program...
Results of last week's city council and school baord elections were finalized this week. Strong support for conservative candidates from voters angered by condominium controls denied a city council majority to the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The school board will include three liberals and three conservatives, a change from the previous 4-2 CCA majority. The mayor, to be chosen from among the city councilors, will serve as the seventh member, determining the committee's political slant...
Jane F. Sullivan became the first woman member of the neighborhood-oriented conservative Independent slate to win a spot on the committee in 26 years, edging out Frances Cooper of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). The CCA controlled the committee with a 4-2 majority during the last term...
...three Independent seats will probably doom the lay-off policy implemented by the current CCA-dominated school committee. That policy blocked the layoff of minority and many younger teachers; the Independents campaigned on a pledge of lay-off by strict seniority...
...Except for the Wilkes vote, political patterns again proved hard to break in the city. John St. George '70, who supported the CCA's platform but denounced its style, fared badly in the areas where such a stance was supposed to have helped him. And Robert White, despite a long history of tenant activism, found it next to impossible to break into the solid support of Cambridge apartment-dwellers for David Sullivan. Abt's candidacy may have proved this lesson most of all--despite high name visibility, enormous amounts of money, and an issue-oriented campaign, she was unable...