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Although complete results of last Tuesday's race for the Cambridge City Council will not be know until sometime today, as of Saturday night two candidates endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and three incumbents had gained the quota necessary to win seats...
There is a certain civic perversity in the fact that Chicago is in the process of destroying Sullivan's works. Of the 92 Sullivan buildings once standing there, 66 have been demolished, mostly by developers who wanted to replace them with more profitable office buildings or parking garages. Some important Sullivan structures remain-the Carson Pirie Scott department store, for example. But wreckers are now at work on the last Sullivan office building in the Loop, the 13-story Old Stock Exchange, a landmark completed in 1894. Said a special mayor's committee: "It was economically and structurally...
Other candidates also offer alternatives to the present administration. Incumbent Barbara Ackermann has worked hard during her terms for rent control and other reforms, but without support from other councillors it is hard to be effective. Cambridge Civic Association Candidates Jerry Cole and Fred Arsenault also offer ideas for changes in various areas of city life...
Inside, Nixon spoke to an audience of 5,000 that included civic and labor Pooh-Bahs but was dominated by businessmen. The President noted that he was rather "like the preacher talking to the choir." Members of the choir liked the President's sermon-and no wonder. It put stress on protecting domestic industry and boosting profits...
Most of the candidates for City Council, including the progressive Cambridge Civic Association slate, liberal incumbents Barbara Ackerman and Robert Moncrieff, independent candidates, and Socialist Workers Party candidates showed up for the 'illegal' meeting and spoke to a group in the street. Five councillors were conspicuously absent: incumbents Thomas Danehy, Daniel Clinton, Walter Sullivan, Alfred Velluci, and Thomas Coates. It is clear from this incident that these candidates do not want to discuss in public the present state of the government they run. The interests of these same politicians are served by Cronin's decision...