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Duehay's sensationally strong showing and the almost certain election of two more CCA endorsed candidates are good omens for the City's schools. If a CCA endorsed Councilor like Edward Crane is named Mayor (and thus Chairman of the School Committee as well), the CCA members will constitute for the first time a majority of the seven man Committee. At least, the CCA will retain its three-man minority which was immensely effective during the last two years...
Yesterday, the commission redistributed the surplus votes of councillors Walter J. Sullivan and Edward A. Crane '35--the only two candidates thus far elected. Under the City's complex proportional representation voting system, this process of election of the top ranking candidates, elimination of the lower ranking ones, and redistribution of the votes will not be known until Monday at the earliest...
According to yesterday's preliminary, unofficial count by the Election Commission, Walter J. Sullivan and Edward A. Crane '35 have met the quota necessary for election under the City's complex proportional representation voting system. Sullivan, the perennial front-runner, once again finished first in "number one votes," with an unofficial total of 4083. Crane received 3165 "number ones...
...advertisements of Danehy have taken the Crane line, stressing the rising tax rates of Cambridge. If Danehy gets on the Council, it would probably tip the scales in favor of the anti-DeGuglielmo forces...
...interval between the elections and the seating of the new Council in January, 1968, will probably see much jockeying for position by the Crane and DeGuglielmo factions. (It was during this period, two years ago, that DeGuglielmo lined up the five votes which made him City Manager...