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...ISSUE in the fall campaigns was the quality of chief City personnel. The liberals elected to the Council had all promised that one of their first actions in office would be to dismiss incumbent City Manager John H. Corcoran. The liberal five argued that Corcoran had appointed mediocre people to important City positions and that he lacked the drive and imagination necessary to work with the Council in instituting long needed reform programs. In the type of city government that Cambridge has, the City Manager has the power to fill vacant City posts and draw up the budget...
These five Councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association promised in their campaigns that one of their first acts upon reaching office would be to remove incumbent City Manager John H. Corcoran, who has appointed notably mediocre people to fill important vacancies in various City departments. Corcoran's record on such issues as school construction and housing clearly indicates that he does not have the imagination or initiative required to work with the Council in launching much-needed reforms in Cambridge...
...John H. Corcoran, City Manager of Cambridge, is smiling to himself these days. He still...
Things looked gloomy for Corcoran six months ago when five liberals who had campaigned on their promise to fire him won a majority of seats in the City Council. Mayor Barbara Ackermann and Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham, Robert Moncreiff and Henry F. Owens III immediately began their search for a new City Manager...
Graham then introduced two resolutions which failed by the same 7-2 margin. Owens being her only supporter. The first would have offered the job of City Manager to James Threatt, administrator of the Model Cities program in Kansas City, Mo. The second motion urged the dismissal of Corcoran even though his successor has not been selected...