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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...
...Graham on the Council and Charles Pierce on the School Committee, the more populous Portuguese segment, largely located in East Cambridge, has no effective voice in either body. Whether it will make a dent in a political system still largely shared by old-line Irish and Italian pols and CCA liberals remains a question mark. Since many Cambridge Portuguese are not U.S. citizens and voter registration is low among those who are, the poor showing of previous Portuguese candidates will likely repeat in November...
...this time, Ackermann and two popular Independents, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy, seem assured of re-election. Owens, who is certain to lose his CCA endorsement, and Frank H. Duehay '55 appear in trouble. Donald Fantini, an Independent member of the School Committee and an ardent Frisoli supporter, Leonard Russell, a three-time loser who trailed Duehay by only 36 votes the last time around, and Dom Christofaro of Cambridgeport should prove the strongest challengers...