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...city's progressive organizers by refusing to join forces in a single-minded coalition against conservative incumbent Francis McCann. She lost. This year, she's making her first bid for the city council, and she won, with no fuss at all, the support of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). She appeared--and still appears--to have a good shot at winning a seat on the nine-member panel. A tireless campaigner, she has probably shaken as many hands as any candidates save the Sullivans, Walter and David. But despite her avowed support for rent control and opposition to condominium...
...money into the economy. Volcker also denied that Regan had privately asked him to boost the money supply. Aside from their policy differences, there is little love lost between the two men. Volcker declined to appear at a joint press conference with the Secretary and left the San Francisco Civic Center shortly before Regan arrived to give his speech. "Volcker does not think Regan is the greatest Treasury Secretary in the world," grumbles one Treasury official. "Volcker thinks he knows more about economic policy than anybody else, even...
...leaflet, which urges condominium owners to register to vote "in order to protect your basic rights" mentions one city councilor--David Sullivan--by name, and attacks as well the other members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate, claiming they have set up "investigation squads...in a witch hunt-like attempt to search out 'illegal homeowners...
Though he agrees with their platform almost point by point, local liberal John T. St. George '70 didn't seek the support of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) for his city council bid. Running an independent campaign, he says "lends a sense of adventure to my candidacy...
...land (God's country, after all, his bounteous land grant, the interminable individualist homestead unfolding toward the horizon) and the simultaneous need for shelter that its harshness imposed. A people so socially and geographically mobile used housing as an instrument to trumpet their wherewithal, their substance, their civic presence. They have sometimes nearly impoverished themselves to anchor their identities in their homes. In a 1920 magazine serial called "More Stately Mansions," a social-climbing wife pouts and wheedles her husband: "Dickie, I've simply got to have it... A nice house gives a man self-respect and confidence...