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Alfred Vellucci "A pain in the ass to Harvard College and a Saint to the people of East Cambridge," is the way The Harvard Crimson described City Councilor Vellucci way back in 1968. "Pain in the ass, or no," says Councilor Vellucci, "I still plan to continue putting pressure on those aristocratic, pompous bastards up in Harvard. They may have shed their velvet pantaloons and silver buckled shoes, but they're still the same arrogant guys that are screwing up not only the city of Cambridge, but are screwing up the country and the world...
...share the problems and responsibilities of providing people with housing with the City of Cambridge. They, Harvard and M.I.T., were forced to get into the Cambridge housing act. Both of those Universities built about 1,000 apartments for Cambridge elderly. It is said that I, as a City Councilor, suggested that Harvard Yard be paved and turned into a parking lot. Again, the Harvard Corporation responded to pressure by creating a parking lot across the Charles at the Harvard Business School and using a shuttle bus service...
...doesn't he just go away," say the big brass in Grays Hall. "Why doesn't he lose and go back to the North End where he came from," says another (the councilor has lived in Cambridge all of his life...
...crisis of sorts to prompt any action. With Three Mile Island fresh in their minds, people in the United States cringe at anything labelled 'nuclear' or 'radioactive.' "When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...
...issue in a lot of densely populated cities around the country that all start to look like Manhattan," City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who sponsored the question, says. He adds that possible regulations would invoke height and setback limitations to encourage appropriate development...