Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, thanks to the Cambridge City Council the answer to these burning questions may soon be known. City councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 on Monday night proposed, and the Council adopted, an inquiry into the street's histories. At stake could be several Harvard parking spaces, and perhaps snow removal along the disputed roadways...
...cooler and more practical in his feelings toward Jessie George, the Englishwoman he married in 1896 and used as a servant for most of her life. Nor did he manage to make and keep many friends. Only Ford Madox Ford, with whom he collaborated, and the sickly Stephen Crane became more than colleagues. But the absence of intimacy bothered Conrad far less than the lack of success. His letters to friends, editors and agents speak constantly of his ambition, his frustration and his need for additional advances. The letters also attest to Conrad's unbounded faith in his talent...
When City Councilor Kevin Crane '73 announced earlier this week that he would not seek re-election, he dramatically altered the balance of a race that already seemed unusually unpredictable...
...Crane's retirement--"I want to devote full time to the practice of law," he said--would seem to give the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) its best chance in several elections to gain a five-seat majority on the nine-member panel...
...spoiler, Alvin Thompson, may be joined by others in the weeks before August 21, when nominating petitions must be returned. And, as one political veteran pointed out. "There is more than enough time between now and November for this thing to change in half a dozen different directions. Still, Crane's departure and the strong field of CCA nominees will focus attention for the next four months on the battle for majority control of the council