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Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci moved yesterday that Harvard transfer the name from square to mall. Vellucci knew Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs, was in the audience prepared to grant the request immediately for Harvard...
DeGuglielmo's prediction of defeat for the City's long fight against the highway was immediately assailed by Councillor Edward A. Crane...
...Cambridge City Council has made Saturday, Oct. 15, "Stop the Inner Belt Day" -- and if Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci has his way, the whole City will know about...
...understandably, have political outbursts against Harvard disappeared. "Let's get something sraight," city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci once said, "when Harvard's for something, I'm against it." Vellucci has often taken the initiative, proposing that part of Harvard Yard be turned into a parking lot, that the Lampoon be converted into a public lavatory, and that Plympton St. be renamed Cliffie Lane. His suggestions often achieve their only purpose, publicity. But even this reflects the "political capital" that can be made on the names of Harvard and M.I.T...
When something bothers these men or they need something from Harvard, they go to Whitlock. Last winter, the daughter of one Cambridge City Councillor decided to study in Widener Library; she was asked to leave by library officials because she did not attend the University. In ten minutes, her father was on the phone protesting to Whitlock. When a fire destroyed a Cambridge Church, the congregation wanted to see if one of its pictures would be worth restoring. Church leaders called Mayor Daniel J. Hayes; Hayes called Whitlock, and Whitlock called Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts...