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Most rent control opponents react to conversion by calling for either a prohibition of evictions by landlords who want to convert apartments of by going further and placing a limit on conversions. City Councilor David Clem says the rent control board approved only four requests for eviction by converting landlords between January and September of 1977. Conversion opponents claim, however, that landlords are frightening many more tenants who do not know their legal rights or are just too afraid to exercise them...
Kevin P. Crane '71 is looking to carry on the family political tradition. He is the son of Edward Crane '35, former Cambridge mayor and city councilor. Young Crane is running his own campaign as an independent, and has not sought the endorsement of Cambridge Convention...
...Cambridgeport, Clinton is a former mailman and construction company employee. He is now on leave of absence from a job as a police sergeant in the Middlesex County Courthouse. One of the two commissioners signing his appointment to that job is John Danehy, the patronage-wielding brother of Cambridge Councilor Thomas Danehy. Councilor Walter Sullivan is also an employee of the Courthouse. Clinton, Danehy and Sullivan may be independent--but not of one another...
...account, he is rent control's staunchest foe--the only councilor to vote against it in all forms. Rent control advocates, he says, "shy away from a study of what the need for it is." And they don't understand what he sees as the dangers...
...Cambridge City Council may grab the headlines in the city's government, and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci may seize the spotlight, but the man who fine tunes the city's affairs is much less a public character. One city councilor is working as an administrator at Tufts, another earns a living as a security guard and a third recently left a job as a state tax collector. But it's City Manager James L. Sullivan who runs the city full-time...