Word: condoe
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...abbreviation factor" is the final piece of circumstantial evidence pointing to the CCC's basically conservative stand. For 40 years, the Cambridge Civic Association, known to all as the CCA, has dominated Cambridge liberal politics. Each election year it runs a pro-rent control, anti-condo conversion slate. This year, once much of the CCA '79 literature was back from the printers, the CCC emerged, with similar slate tactics. To further complicate things, the CCC endorsed the three CCA candidate who later demanded to the unendorsed. Duehay demanded to be left off the CCC ticket because he feared "there would...
...very naive and impressionable better-government types. But most people in this city, especially those who get themselves involved in elections, are savvy--opponents have labelled the depolarization campaign a smokescreen, charging that behind it lies a well-financed arm of the city's anti-rent control, pro-condo conversion faction...
...bill, which was passed by the city council this summer, has slowed the conversion of apartments to condominiums. "It is more than a condo bill, though," Sullivan said. "It is desiged to cover any removal of housing from the rental market," he said...
Other campaign issues include city administration and what Frisoli calls the "liberal clique that has allowed this city to stagnate for ten years." But condo conversion and rent control will be among the deciding factors in the campaign. "There are more tenants than landlords in this city. We have always welcomed a vote on this, and we have done our best to make it an issue," Sullivan says...
...unit in question was originally owned by Arthur Drinkwater '00, for many years the oldest living Harvard alumnus. Drinkwater died recently, leaving the unit to Harvard, which sold it to Stephen Harrison, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The University bought the condo from Harrison last month...