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...number of citizens who make one of these splinter candidates their first choice on the ballot will provide a rough estimate of the amount of discontent with the traditional patterns of Cambridge politics: it is a total which political veterans-especially the present City Councilors-will probably be watching closely. At the moment, however, it does not seem that the impact of the rent control issue will be great. There has been councilor-which would amount to a minor relatively little agitation over rent control during the council campaign: registration is actually about 2000 less than in 1967, indicating that...
Four of the five councilor who voted against rent control are running again; they seem to feel that the issue-volatile though it may be-has not eroded their traditional bases of support. "The people who sit out there and yell at you to do something are never the ones who really vote for you anyway," says one of the four...
...increasing minority representation, one of the more interesting questions about the race is the fate of the three black candidates: Thomas Coates (CCA), School Committeeman Gustave M. Solomons (CCA), and Henry F. Owen III (Ind.). Of the three, Coates appears to have the most strength. A former councilor, he began running again moments after he was defeated in 1967. Yet, if he or another black is to win, the black voters will have to mark their ballots one, two, three for the three black candidates. The frontrunner will probably still need some more support from white-mostly likely CCA-voters...
...Councilor Thomas H. Mahoney answered that each of these sites had been rejected for housing for specfied reasons. "When we had hearings on these sites the neighbors of the areas turned out in force to object. Everybody wants housing for the poor and the elderly, but nobody wants it in his back yard," he said...
Monday night, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci voiced a complaint long whispered around the Square: "Bow Street looks like the City dump." City health inspectors should crack down on those who place piles of trash in the area, he said, adding that it might be necessary for the City to swear out a complaint in the Third District Court in East Cambridge against "the owners of that castle...