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Reeves' ballot would have provided the fifth and decisive vote for Galluccio had the three other Alliance councillors followed suit. Acting Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 has consistently received the support of the four liberals endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA...
...next mayor, seems to be unconsciously re-enacting its own birth pangs. When the towns of Old Cambridge, Cambridgeport and East Cambridge were jointly incorporated into a city almost 150 years ago, tensions ran high between the competing interests of industry and academe. Today, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the Alliance for Progress (the Independents) are in a stand off over the choice of the next head of City Hall and the School Committee. This stalemate by means of partisanship serves as an unfortunate affirmation of a divided history...
Outgoing mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 has placed himself in the center of the conflict. He has become the pivotal vote on the City Council by continually casting his ballot in favor of himself while the four CCA council members back Francis H. Duehay '55 and the four Independents vote for Sheila T. Russell. Though the spotlight appropriately shines in his direction, aspersion should not be cast the way of former mayor Reeves. By voting for himself, he votes for the interests of the city he has served well over the past four years with his sincere dedication to education...
...Reeves keeps on voting for himself [because he] wants it his way, but the CCA wants it their way and the Independents want it their way," Bohn-Hayden says...
...believe the status quo will continue," says Cantabrigian Robert J. La Tremouille. "The CCA will obviously be happy because Duehay, their pick, is the acting mayor; and the Independents will be happy because they didn't have to vote for him [and give up their principle...