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SINCE 1966, the hiring and firing of city managers has dominated the political scene in Cambridge. Before that everything was kept in order by the city's boss figure, Edward A. Crane '35, and his hand-picked city manger, John J. Curry '19. But Crane's one-man rule resulted in mutiny. A coalition of liberal and independent councilors ousted Curry and hired Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 in February 1966. DeGuglielmo lasted only through the next election and was fired in January 1968. The Council embarked on an extensive search for a replacement and finally came up with James...
Moncreiff describes his first term as "an exercise in frustration." After Crane dumped Sullivan he once again took control of the city, this time through Corcoran. "I didn't know anything more about what was going on than someone who read the Chronicle, except I heard it a few days earlier," Moncreiff remembers...
...this was a great party," says Nick Pavelich, a crane operator who had driven his Winnebago 173 miles from Grand Rapids. "I've heard so much about tailgating I thought just one time I'm going to see one." Nick and his wife Carol, like some others, decided that football tickets were the least important aspect of the day. They and their pals sat in a Winnebago, next to their Grain Belt beer, and watched the Vikings beat the Packers...
...made what seems to be seem kind of auteur ultimate: a film where the director is himself the individual studied. Comparisons with Fellini's 8 1/2 are hard to avoid, and they are not to the advantage of Truffaut's film. Truffaut has even borrowed Fellini's peculiar crane shots, although he shunts aside mention of the similarities by saying that 8 1/2 is "more poetic...
...audience (an estimated 48 million), the show began with a male-female duet of Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better. That was followed by the omnipresent Howard Cosell in his own flashy tuxedo-which seemed rather like a smoking jacket on a whooping crane. The experts on hand were Gene Scott and Rosemary Casals; both worked hard to demonstrate their sexist bias. Scott never had a chance in the face of Ms. Casals' steady barrage of anti-Riggs billingsgate...