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Chief Reagan announced to an astonished Councilman Wylie that: "There is a direct correlation between excellent police work and the number of brutality charges brought against an individual officer...
...Vellucci. He is an effective politician, and is as adept at pre-meeting bargaining as he is at stump speaking. Vellucci's uncanny knowledge of Cambridge's affairs, combined with his flair for rhetoric and constant well-aimed barbs at Harvard, has turned him into the most popular councilman...
Ronald V. Dellums, 38. Running for Congress in 1970, Berkeley City Councilman Dellums won votes for his antiwar stand and picked up another bundle when Spiro Agnew called him a "radical extremist." "If being an advocate of peace, justice and humanity toward all human beings is radical," he responded, "then I am a radical." Completing his second term and probably en route to a third as Democratic Congressman from California's Eighth District, Dellums still leans far to the left; he was one of only eight House members to earn a perfect score in the latest rating...
Robert J. Fitzpatrick, 34, a Canadian-born, onetime Jesuit seminarian, holds a master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president-not simultaneously...
Matthew J. Troy Jr., 44. An energetic New York City councilman, Troy is also leader of the state's second largest Democratic county organization. His election to the Queens County post in 1971 elicited congratulatory phone calls from a gaggle of presidential hopefuls. Although he opposes busing and led a pro-Viet Nam parade in 1965, the unpredictable Troy endorsed George McGovern In 1972-probably just to stymie the ambitions of his bete noire, John Lindsay. A Fordham-educated lawyer who has proved expert at traditional back-room gambits, he is the son of a retired local judge...