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Morison says Harvard's Overseers chose Cambridge as the home for their school in large part because of the "winning way" of the community's leader, Thomas Shepard. But six present-day civic leaders, including Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy sent a letter to the Board of Overseers this winter asking it to take some action to remedy about "the consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard officials in their dealings with the city...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal party, last week backed six candidates vying for city council seats and four running for the school committee in the upcoming municipal elections...
...each election year endorses a slate of candidates who agree to run on the same platform and support the same candidates for mayor and school superintendent. Currently, civic association members hold four of the nine city council slots, and control three of the seven school committee seats...
Unemployed and a drifter, the Ohio-born Harvey, 35, claimed to have met three men with Latin names in downtown Los Angeles two weeks ago. On May 4 he was with the three in a third-floor room of the skid row Alan Hotel, near the Los Angeles Civic Center. The three told him they intended to shoot President Carter, who was scheduled to talk to a crowd in the center on the following day, a Saturday. They asked him to help. Under the plan, Harvey was to work his way toward the front of the crowd, then fire...
...annually giving political instruction to employees as well as retirees, shareholders, royalty owners, leaseholders and distributors. It encourages them all to pressure their legislators. In its latest annual report, ARCO notes, "In its continuing effort to heighten employee and shareholder political awareness, the Company has widened its Civic Action Program, which now has 45 local area committees operating in 13 states..." All told, the program maintains contact with 63,000 people. These figures uphold the contention that ARCO is a significant national political force on the basis of its PAC alone...