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...function of the Cambridge City Council is the appointment of a City Manager, because that official is most responsible for the city's day-to-day and long-range welfare. Five City Councillors were elected last November on a platform that demanded the replacement of incumbent Manager John H. Corcoran by a more innovative reform minded administrator...
After nine months of constant argument, bitter accusations, facial innuendo and political hyperbole--generated by the fight over the selection of a new City Manager--the Council last Monday night gave incumbent John H. Corcoran a vote of confidence...
Cronin, vacationing in Maine, was unavailable for comment yesterday. City Manager John H. Corcoran declined to release Cronin's letter of resignation or make any statement except to confirm that Cronin had resigned August...
...Mayor views Council leadership as emanating from the City Manager, who should submit programs and lines of argument for Council debates to follow. Corcoran has obviously fallen short in this area on the subject of his own replacement...
Meanwhile the councillors continue to speak of Corcoran's incompetence, Peterson's lack of qualifications, and Johnson's lack of vision. But such maneuvering in the Manager dispute appears to be no more than symptomatic byplay of a more serious deeper illness in Cambridge city government. As Councillor Danehy said. 'There have been divisions before on the best course for the city to follow, but never to the point where the Council could...