Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ecology?" scoffs a black militant in Chicago. "I don't give a good goddam about ecology!" In Georgia, Union Camp Corporation's director of air and water resources, Glenn Kimble, wonders whether mankind will suffer "a whole hell of a lot if the whooping crane doesn't quite make it." Flowery-hatted ladies from the D.A.R. have served notice that concern over pollution "is being distorted and exaggerated by emotional declarations and by intensive propaganda." Such backlash views are now being voiced in many parts of the country, although the protesters often have little more in common...
...Statue. I looked back at Manhattan and saw some awful, mysterious yellow cloud gobbling up most of the buildings in the City. It had already devoured the George Washington Bridge and it was biting off the top of the Empire State Building. New steel towers reared up crane-covered heads along the waterfront, ready to nourish the cloud in their turn...
...five councillors who voted to fire Sullivan are: Daniel J Chlinton. Thomas Coates. Edward A. Crane '35, Thomas W. Danehy, and Mayor Alfred E. Vellueci. Though he has publicly denied it. Crane is believed to be the moving force behind the anti-Sullivan coalition...
...years, Crane was the informal leader of the council and a close advisor to City Manager James J. Curry '19, until Curry was fired by the council in January 1966. The anti-Curry move touched off the series of coups and counter-coups centering around the managership which have been the meat of Cambridge politics since then...
...successfully completed, the firing of Sullivan will probably represent a political comeback for Crane...