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...Councillor John J. McNamara bolted the City Council independents' ranks this week to keep fellow-councilman Edward J. Sullivan from becoming Cambridge's new mayor. The Cambridge Civic Association, meanwhile, abstained from voting and let the independent majority bring the newly-elected council's first meeting to an impasse...
...Councillor Hyman Pill explained the CCA's abstention by asserting that the association's minority will "wait and see" which independent will agree to cooperate with CCA-backed city manager John J. Curry '19 and uphold CCA school committee policies. Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, unofficial spokesman for the CCA group, said yesterday that "any of the five independents might be acceptable, but the CCA will make sure that he's the man we want before we pick...
...Councillor John D. Lynch called the 22,000 permanent residents who have moved out of Cambridge since 1945 the city's "lost battalion" and vowed that the council would take "drastic action" at its first meeting in January to make sure that the population does not dwindle further. "We've got to keep Cambridge from becoming a ghost town," he added...
...Councillors Hyman Pill and Edward A. Crane '35 agreed with Lynch that the Council should initiate a survey by an as-yet-undetermined body to study other methods of stemming the decrease. Councillor Edward J. Sullivan said that "it's important to keep Cambridge a residential community as well as a college campus...
Lynch said that mechanic-driver Justin C. McCarthy was accompanied by six Radcliffe girls from the Midwest, "bag and baggage," as he left at 4 a.m. Friday morning. Councillor Edward Crane '35, however, insisted that one of the six was from Lesley College. A spot check last night indicated that it was unlikely that six 'Cliffedwellers drove home with McCarthy...