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...James H. Corcoran, City Manager, said no raises would be given this year to City workers, including policemen, firefighters and teachers, according to The Boston Globe, Corcoran has sole jurisdiction over wages of the city employees union. He could not be reached last night for further comment...
...craves chicken salad and postcoital Milky Ways and, on her first day in the sun, bakes herself to a fearful incarnadine. She spends the next couple of days in the hotel room, time enough for Lenny to fall wildly in love with a snippy blonde from Minnesota named Kelly Corcoran (Cybill Shepherd...
ONCE ELECTED to the Council, Ackermann always seemed willing to speak her mind, even when it meant confronting powerful City Manager William Corcoran, and especially on her pet issue of rent control. When Corcoran chose the rent control commissioners without consulting with the city councillors, Ackermann was first to attack him: "(He) showed contempt for the four councillors and members of the library board and the blue-ribbon panel on a rent control administrator by not consulting with them," she said at the time...
...April she received unanimous approval of her order to have the rent control administrator grant no increases above the March 1970 rent level "except in exact amounts to meet increased costs." And in the final effort to thwart Corcoran's activities on rent control, she sought in June 1971 to deny a salary increase to Corcoran, to express the Council's discontent with the manager's handling of rent control, which the termed "irresponsible...
Another "cause celebre" that Ackermann supported was the "People's Peace Trenty" in April 1971, which she sponsored before the City Council, and which called for America to agree to immediate and total withdrawal from Vietnam. Because of her constant pressing of the problem of drug treatment, Corcoran finally approved a $67,000 outside grant for a community-based drug treatment program. One of her major fights has been against the highway that Governor Sargent wants to put through Cambridge; as chairman of the T Committee she gathered support for the Boston Transportation Planning Review (BTPR...