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...working class in Cambridge port and the condesension of the old settlers towards the new split the Harvard Square town meeting house government and placed the City Hall in Central Square--a clear victory for the Cambridgeport squatters. As the Cambridge Book--1966 published by the Cambridge Civic Association notes of the social stratification...
...Hill and in a sort of verbal fox-hunting pushed for the acceptance of a plan E form of government, a reformers' panacea that attempts to separate city administration from politics by hiring a city manager to make up the budget and execute city business. By forming the Cambridge Civic Association Brattle Street and Harvard University officials could then back hand-picked candidates in the city's new non-partisan proportional representation election system...
...part of his case, Gillerman will present correspondence showing that Stephen Smith, head of the Kennedy Library Corporation, reviewed the documents that the GSA has refused to show Cambridge civic groups...
...denied the public any access to the unedited Maguire draft, the same material given to the Kennedy Corporation for pre-screening. Neighborhood Ten, a Cambridge civic group, is suing the GSA for access to the documents and will argue its case in court today...
Thomas Nast's editorial cartoons were worth fearing; the savage caricatures showed Tweed variously as a vulture, a bag of money and, when Nast had sufficiently aroused the civic conscience, a felon in prison stripes...