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Mayor John J. Foley, Councilor Marcus Morton (Yale '16), and Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Administrative Vice-President of the University Edward R. Reynolds, look upon alternate side, alternate night parking as a possible step toward a realistic answer. Pyne affirmed that the present ordinance, because it is occasionally violated, tends to weaken respect for other traffic regulations. Alternate side parking, Foley feels, would also solve the cleaning and snow removal obstacles...
...week's end it was not clear whether Treasurer Kennedy would resubmit his brother's name, or whether the Governor's Council would reconsider it if he did, or ; whether Councilor Wells would remember his boast: "I would get out of the council if I couldn't pass an intelligence test with a higher mark than James...
...Most councilors looked the other way, but Councilor George A. Wells accepted the challenge. The match was arranged. At 11 a.m. one day last week the two men showed up at Boston University. For good measure, State Treasurer Kennedy sent along his brother-in-law, Joseph Williams, whom he had planned to appoint as his police aide...
...Caucauasu" was an Algonquian word meaning "elder" or "councilor." The Americans borrowed it and made it "caucus," meaning a party war council on the eve of battle. Last week, at Cincinnati, 125 Republican caucauasu caucused on the eve of battle. They called their meeting a "workshop," a term borrowed from universities, which had (quite unimaginatively) borrowed it from workshops. The chief Republican caucauasu at Cincinnati was Vice President Richard Nixon. "I do not come to you terribly optimistic or terribly pessimistic," said the Vice President to the Republican braves. "I think that this election is extremely close. We Republicans...
...role of political Cassandra, Mendèes had long warned of the need for greater concessions to North Africa's nationalists, and as Premier, had created France's first ministry for Tunisian and Moroccan affairs. But it was already dangerously late. In Tunisia, terrorists shot a municipal councilor, bombed a police chief's home, and machine-gunned a bus and a cafeé, killing eight people. Mendèes sent 1,600 French paratroopers to Tunis...