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...luck of the Irish gave the City of Dublin its most popular mayor last year when the name of City Councilman Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was drawn from a hat to settle a tie in the voting. The fact that the new chief executive of the capital city of Roman Catholic Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish...
...thereby make sure that Mayor Briscoe failed to get the clear majority of the corporation votes which he needed for reelection. The result was another tie vote, 21 to 21, so into the hat once again went Briscoe's name, together with that of the independent candidate-City Councilman James Carroll, an oldtime plasterer who once worked on interiors in Manhattan's Empire State Building...
...solution to the school committee problem was good-humoredly proposed later by City Councilman Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, who suggested that "all school committees should be abolished." Shaplin countered that he is heading a study of State school committees to try to improve, rather than abolish, the existing ones...
...other misfortunes: Vested interests suffered when the Fly Club was threatened by the onslaught of commuters without an adequate center, and Councilman Velucci threatened to build an expressway through the Yard. The Faculty obstinately refused to allow students to type exams, and someone stole Mrs. Mrs. Brennans 30-pound...
...City Councilman Alfred E. Vellucci warned tonight that "If Harvard doesn't put a new parking program into effect, I'm going to hold up all of its new construction," at a dinner of the Freshman Intramural Debate Council, in the Union...