Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louise Day Hicks, nationally known for her slogan "neighborhood schools for neighborhood children," is expected to win easily in her race for a seat on the Boston city council as Boston voters go to the polls today...
...THEY cast ballots with later choices, their votes will be redistributed to other candidates once their first choices are eliminated. Likely as not, those ballots-however many of them are thus marked-will ultimately end up in the pile of Barbara Ackerman, (CCA), one of the current council's strongest supporters of rent control. Unless the vote for splinter control candidates is unexpectedly strong, Ackermann's base of "number ones" among more liberal City voters should give her more than enough to make it on the council again...
...members of the current city council-Cornelia B. Wheeler (CCA) and Bernard Goldberg (Ind.)-are not running for re-election; where their votes go will be important in determining the other two members of the new council. In Wheeler's case, it is pretty clear: By a process somewhat akin to a laying-on of hands, she has been backing Robert P. Moncreiff, a former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some...
...must either grab one of the four traditional CCA seats (an unlikely proposition considering the competition) or win as a fifth CCA revolution in City politics. So, at the moment, it is likely that Cambridge's blacks will fall just short of re-gaining representation on the council...
Thus, when the votes are all tallied a week or so from now, chances are that the resulting council will be similar to the present one. That in turn bodes well for the future of City Manager James L. Sullivan. Though the two retiring councilors were part of the coalition which hired Sullivan, the manager seems to feel that he can gain the support of a majority of the new council, and he is a man sensitive to the way the political wind is blowing in the City. For the first time since 1963, then, the council elections...