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Frisoli termed the outcome a "political accident" since CCA candidate Frank H. Duehay '55, dean of admission at the Graduate School of Education, defeated Independent Leonard Russell by only 36 votes for the ninth Council slot. In total, more votes were cast for Independent candidates than for the CCA slate...
...situation was a stalemate when most students left the City in June. Four of the CCA endorsed liberals on the Council--Mayor Barbara Ackermann. Robert P. Moncreiff, Francis H. Duehay '55 alid Saundra Graham--supported Howard C. (Neil) Peterson, former City Administrator of New Brunswick...
...month after the ouster Citizens for Frisoli" collected over 6000 signatures on petitions calling for a referendum on the superintendent question However the liberal CCA majority on the City Council refused to place the question on the ballot. The pro-Frisoli faction crowded the galleries and shouted epithets such as "Power to the People" while the City Council debated the matter. Both Middlesex Superior Court and the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the council's decision, ruling that Frisoli's removal was a administrative rather than a legislative action and therefore not subject to referendum...
...fifth CCA councillor, Henry F. Owens III, continued to hold out 'for James Johnson, the black Deputy City Manager of Kansas City, Mo., even though a panel of community leaders had twice expressed their preference for Peterson over any other candidate for City Manager...
Owens insisted that Peterson, 28, was too young and the experienced for the job. The other CCA councillors countered by accusing Owens, who is black of backing Johnson Principally because of his color. Graham, who is also black, originally supported both Peterson and Johnson as a welcome alternative to Corcoran...