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There were two major upsets in the City Council and School Committee races, as council president Gerald F. O'Leary and committeeman Paul F. Ellison were defeated in their bid for reelection...
...crowds. So town fathers are considering 1) seeking a court injunction to prevent the state from making improvements at the park, and 2) suing both state and Federal Government for the extra money to accommodate the throngs. "We do not want to be cast as unpatriotic," says Township Committeeman Christopher Bannister, "but we resent the idea that we should give a birthday party for the nation and have to foot the bill...
...other hand, Donald A. Fantini, a former independent committeeman who was an unsuccessful candidate for city council in the last election, described the teachers as "reasonable people" and said that when he was on the committee some CCA-sponsored members "acted in bad faith" during union negotiations. Though there probably wouldn't be great public enthusiasm for a raise to teachers in these troubled times, the teachers themselves could be a significant force at the polls...
...conference, a newly formed steering committee met to start mapping strategy. The committee is a careful blending of G.O.P. factions. Representing the party's right wing are Dean Burch, who was a key strategist in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard L. Herman, former national committeeman from Nebraska. From the left are former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and Robert Douglass, a New York attorney who is close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon...
Sheriff Eisenstadt joins a group of other possibles, including City Councilman Christopher Iannella, School Committeeman John Kerrigan and WHDH talkmaster Avi Nelson, who probably will not be important candidates in the September race. Eisenstadt and Kerrigan have limited political bases and are not in strong financial positions. Iannella suffers from money problems originating in an unsuccessful bid for state office. Although Nelson reportedly has the support of some influential Republicans in Boston, he too lacks a wide political base, appealing primarily to extreme antibusing forces...