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...Good government" has always escaped easy definition. Never has this been more clear than now when he CCA is seriously split over a fundamental issue: who should run the City. The conflict involves more than policy differences, it parallels the personal clash between City Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 and City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo...
...Crane-DeGuglielmo feud has been a hard one for the CCA to handle. DeGuglielmo, a former city councillor mavor, and prominent Democrat, carefully planned political coup early in 1966 which, after a furious fight on the floor of the City Council, ended in a 5-4 vote to make him city manager. The dismissed manager of 14 years, John Curry, was a close friend of Crane and had leaned heavily on the advice of the four-time mayor...
...split over more than an intellectual appreciation of city government. Both Crane and DeGuglielmo (a councillor between 1945 and 1963) had been endorsed by the organization. Close partners while they were colleagues, both were born in Cambridge, educated at Harvard, and both had an instinctive feel for local politics. They had been the CCA's strongest and most skilled candidates. Each had many friends and supporters in the organization, and, when the rupture came, it created a deep schism...
...buttons were attacked last week by City Councillor Thomas H.D. Mahoney, who said they were "blasphemous, vulgar, and, in some cases, obscene." At Mahoney's urging, the City Council passed a resolution asking the police to have merchants ban the buttons voluntarily...
...City councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said Monday that he would "demand to know exactly what's going on" at his next meeting with Brennan...