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...point during last month's heated Council debate, Edward A. Crane '35, a staunch Curry backer, predicted that "you won't be able to get an auditorium big enough to hold the people that want to come and will come." He then mentioned a figure of 2000 but, Monday night, more than three-quarters of Rindge's 1500 seats were empty...
...charged that the Curry supporters on the Council, and particularly Crane, were deliberately stalling. "They're using every parliamentary maneuver possible to delay...so the only thing we can do is move on the other side to speed things up." He has scheduled five meetings for Thursday, the start of each one separated by three hours, and said he was prepared to do the same thing on Friday and Saturday...
Gimmicks dominate characters. One has the constant sensation of being on a movie set. Where Bond carries a pen-sized aqua lung, Miss Andress calls a crane to kidnap the beach-house Mastroianni is sleeping in. The gimmick is bigger than she is. The whole set, the whole movie, become one tiresome gimmick...
Edward A. Crane '35, a member of the pro-Curry faction, told mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the leader of the DeGuglielmo majority, that "you and your colleagues are going to be pulverized at the hearing...
Referring again to the majority, Crane declared: "It's all going to come out ... the whole pattern of this coalition, this conspiracy is going to be revealed by competent witnesses." Crane seemed to be referring to an earlier promise to have witnesses testify...