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...majority-five councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-are expected to attempt to agree on one of their number as mayor. In the past few days, virtually all of the five have been mentioned as possible mayors, but perhaps the most speculation has centered around Edward A. Crane '35, who served as the last CAA mayor during...
Several of the CCA-endorsed candi-dates enjoyed substantial bases of support of their own outside the CCA strongholds among academic and middle-class voters, Coates, for example, polled well among his fellow blacks, while Fantini-whose brother unsuccessfully ran for School Committee in 1967 as an independent-received a large portion of his votes from Italian East Cambridge, where most CCA candidates do poorly...
Thus, it seemed that the new CCA majorities might not mean any drastic policy changes-at least not on the City Council, which during the past few years has generally not split along CCA-independent lines...
...School Committee, however, has divided along such lines on several important votes in the past years. When the committee began looking for a new superintendent, for example, the independents ultimately defeated a proposal-supported by the CCA members-to have a panel of Ed School deans search for a man to fill...
Yesterday, most observers were of the opinion that the biggest changes produced by the CCA majorities would come on the School Committee, but no one was willing to predict just what changes...