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...fulfills mostly ceremonial functions, and in this role, Norris Poulson, 65, an accountant and former Republican Congressman, is an unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
Despite widespread approval of the by city administrators and civic the City Council committee on ances voted 4 to 4 yesterday not out favorably a parking that would impose a strict, scale of fines on Cambridge violators...
...head of the retail of the Chamber of Commerce, Corcoran declared that the proposal "would help free parking spaces presently being abused." Supporting him were Harding U. Greene (Citizens Advisory Committee), Warren Dillon (Cambridge Civic Association), Fire Chief Vincent P. Galvin, and Ralph J. Dunphy, Commissioner of Public Works...
...CRIMSON that Volpe's veto and the State Senate's subsequent 19-17 decision to uphold it were not caused by any pressure or influence from the Kennedy Administration. He implied that any pressure placed on Volpe came from local sources, such as the University and the Cambridge Civic Association...
...into millions before he died at 59 in 1950, they have faithfully carried on their father's habit of making money. They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since...