Word: civic
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...surgery; in Agana, Guam. Under Canham's direction, the Monitor was known for incisive international coverage and interpretive news writing. A farm boy who made it to Oxford, he joined the Monitor in 1925 and was named editor in chief in 1964. Canham served in a variety of civic positions, but still found time to teach Christian Science Sunday school class. After retiring from the Monitor in 1974, he was named resident commissioner of the Northern Mariana Islands...
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...
...Superintendent of Schools William Lannon said yesterday that an out-of-court settlement is unlikely until the new school committee takes office. Roland Lachance, president of the Cambridge Teachers' Association (CTA), said the new school committee, which will include more conservative Independents and fewer liberal members of the Cambridge Civic Association, may provide a "better forum" for the union's complaint: that minority teachers should not be spared from lay-offs while teachers with greater seniority are fired due to Proposition...
...urge every Independent member of the council to vote against the proposed amendment; the councilors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association seem solidly opposed to the measure. Most likely, councilor Alfred E. Vellucci will be the swing vote. Though he is rightly angered by the weak support he, in many ways the best friend city tenants have ever had, received from local liberals in last month's election, Vellucci has always before shown his compassion on important votes. We hope he will once more vote to save the diversity of Cambridge...
...push at the junior lawyers here to join civic groups instead of playing racquetball. They're not interested...