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...Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, discharged yesterday that the new hospital will be too small, recalled that the225 bed figure came from a study of the City's health facilities made in 1960 for the City Council...
...public session, the Council met for a mere 22 minutes. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci tried to slip by his colleagues a motion calling for a 10 per cent raise in all city salaries. Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler weakened the motion by changing its wording...
...last Monday, and a weary Cambridge council was wading through its 17th hour of hearings on the dismissal of city manager John J. Curry '19. Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, the four-time mayor and Curry's fiercest defender, rose from his seat to speak. He wanted it understood, he said, that this speech was no "eleventh hour" filibuster or delay. He had contemplated making charges, he said, during the entire controversy...
There were other, even more highly personalized elements: Curry's refusal to appoint Councillor Bernard Goldberg's father as city soliciter, and Councillor William Maher's brush with Crane and Curry in a dispute that followed his unsuccessful campaign in 1963. With the deep personality splits and with Crane's deep personal attachment to Curry, the prospect of compromise was slim in the beginning and almost non-existent...
...prospect of a compromise to end the long dispute surprised most observers who have ranked this fight as one of the most bitter and closely-contested in many years. Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, a Curry supporter, has three times offered a "compromise" to allow Curry to remain in office until a new manager, other than DeGuglielmo, is found. Three times, including once only two days ago, it has been defeated...