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Yesterday Brennan said that the vote "was not the will of the people but a satchel delivered by the transient liberals who make Cambridge a laboratory for their crackpot theories." He attributed the PR victory to the great strength of the system's chief advocate, the Cambridge Civic Association, in a few isolated city wards...
Despite a long-standing regard for Crimson journalism, I submit that in this case the opinions of the editors were hastily formed and ought to be ignored--bad news for any newspaper, and especially Harvard's. Andrew Curcio Vice President, Cambridge Civic Association...
Saturday, the CRIMSON endorsed seven candidates for the Cambridge City Council. Since that time, considerable question has arisen as to why it omitted the name of G. d'Andelot Belin, and supported the other five endorsees of the Cambridge Civic Association...
...political facts guaranteed by Proportional Representation is just that--proportional representation. For this reason, Cambridge's only partisan civic group, the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) has never succeeded in electing more than four of its endorsees to the nine-member City Council. Thus, city government has maintained a balanced representation between the Harvard-M.I.T.-Brattle St. constituency and the rest of Cambridge. This has been a healthy balance...
...ordinary Detroit citizens as well as dedicated, progressive city leaders are up in arms about TIME's only part-true, negative reporting on Detroit [Oct. 27]. The postwar years have been used to reshape Detroit's downtown area with a beautiful civic center; and numerous other improvements are under way-all in a little more than a decade...