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Rising Professionalism. Except for a rising sense of professionalism, there is little that binds the new women politicians together. Baltimore City Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, 38, is a feisty old-school campaigner who ran a tough but losing fight against Maryland's Republican Senator Charles Mathias. Janet Hayes edged out a retired police detective to become mayor of San Jose, a sprawling bedroom city south of San Francisco. She terrified the real estate developers, she says, by declaring, "Let's make San Jose better before we make it bigger." Mary Anne Krupsak, New York's new Lieutenant Governor...
...besides the Boston cold, Plunkett has been dismayed by the goings-on in South Boston. He's not nearly as outspoken about the issue as teammate "Mini Mack" Herron, who has publicly denounced busing opponents Councilwoman Louise Day Hicks and School Committee Chairman John Kerrigan. Plunkett says," I think it's a sad situation. There should be more understanding. I want busing to work. Desegregation should start when kids are very young rather than later in their lives...
...June 10, 1974, Councilwoman Saundra Graham sponsored a City Council resolution whose preamble stated that there is "racial friction" within the Police Department, and that Cambridge has a record of brutality against blacks...
...young men were shot to death on Mead Street. The killings followed months and months of harassment of the Price family by gangs of white youth. Mrs. Clorae Everteze, Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, Mr. Alvin Thompson, Special Assistant to the city Manager for Community Affairs and Councilwoman Graham made numerous pleas to the present and former City Manager to do something so that the Price family might live in peace...
...tightly knit, working-class Irish community that has produced many of the city's leading politicians. Among them: former House Speaker John W. McCormack and Louise Day Hicks, the mother of two and champion of neighborhood schools, first as head of the school committee and lately as city councilwoman. Her white constituents organized a two-week boycott of schools, justifying their opposition to busing on grounds of racism and fear for their children's safety. Explained Thomas O'Connell, father of seven: "The question is: Am I going to send my young daughter, who is budding into...