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Before he would vote for the dismissal of DeGuglielmo, Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, an M.I.T. professor endorsed by the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association, extracted an "agreed memorandum" from the other four anti-DeGuglielmo councillors. They pledged themselves to a 90-day nation-wide search for a "professional" City manager. Besides Mahoney, only one other member of the five--Barbara Ackermann -- enthusiastically favored the search. The other three--Crane, Alfred E. Vellucci, and Thomas W. Danehy--reportedly went along with the memorandum as the price of getting rid of DeGuglielmo...
...involving students and faculty in the planning and decision-making processes. Yet would Harvard's Corporation be any more flexible in the face of reasonable opposition from the community, and from students and faculty, to a policy-decision? Harvard's decentralized government and its community-minded Office for Civic and Governmental Affairs would probably never permit an apartheid-gymnasium issue to reach the Corporation in the first place. But in the face of general increase in student agitation, does Harvard need to adjust its constitution? Or does the current decision-making system provide adequate means for any community member...
...lieutenant general, Krulak was given command of Fleet Marine Forces Pacific. His huge bailiwick extended from El Toro, Calif., to Khe Sanh, with overall responsibility for 80,000 Marines fighting in Viet Nam. Krulak helped to mold tactics for a new type of war, combining hard fighting with civic action among the Vietnamese that only North Viet Nam's massive infusion of regular troops could nullify...
...director of laboratories of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, and soon became director, a post he still holds. For the last two years he has also worked on Harvard's connections with the Federal government in the office of Charles P. Whitlock, President Pusey's assistant for Civic and Governmental Relations...
...areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which may become part of the permanent ritual, was written for the meeting. It was a litany of some relevance to citizens of any religion-or none-in which communicants publicly confessed their civic sins. Among the supplications: > "Forgive us for pretending to care for the poor, when we do not like poor people and do not want them in our houses...