Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Councilor Thomas M. McNamara interjected a light note into the Council discussion when he asked Whitlock whether the closer Harvard-Radcliffe ties created "any danger of the quadrangle becoming a triangle?" Whitlock merely smiled...
...better personify the tragic ironies of the Algerian revolt than burly, jovial Ahmed Boumendjel. A onetime Paris lawyer and councilor of the French Union, Boumendjel has hundreds of friends among French politicians and journalists, to whom he is affectionately known as "Boum." A latecomer to the rebel cause, he joined Algeria's Front de Liberation Nationale only after his younger brother died during "interrogation" by French paratroopers in Algiers in 1956. Presumably, his mission would serve incidentally to give Boumendjel a chance to see his French wife and two teen-age daughters, whom he left behind in Paris when...
...life, both on earth and in heaven, is re-enacted in a series of shell-like stages that were one of the hallmarks of the Renaissance sculptor, Tilman Riemenschneider. He had come to Würzburg in 1483 as a painter's apprentice, rose to be city councilor and finally mayor. Then, during the Peasants' War, he flatly refused the bishop's order to take a stand against the rebels. He was stripped of his honors, "harshly judged and tortured," and legend has it that all his fingers were smashed...
After completing the sixth ballot in its attempt to elect a Mayor, the Cambridge City Council acknowledged its stalemate, as Councilor Edward A. Crane '35 held his four votes and various independents split up the other five. The Council then adjourned until next Monday...