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Graham has been active in community organizing for several years. Last year she led the demonstration that interrupted Harvard graduation ceremonies to demand housing in Riverside. She had obviously learned some of thepolitical ins and outs of Cambridge. Monday night when Philip Cronin '53, Cambridge City Solicitor, presented a watered down version of the committee agreement hammered out Friday between the blacks and the city manager, she interposed calmly, and Cronin reworded the order to be more specific, including a proviso that the blacks would be involved in the selection of a police commissioner, if that post is created...
...trend gathering momentum. It is a return to romanticism, a yearning for years past, when life was simpler and values stronger. This yearning is expressed both in the film Love Story and in the personality of its star, Ali MacGraw. Senior Editor Peter Martin and Correspondent Mary Cronin first met her in Hollywood last June. They were immediately struck, as Martin says, "by her great enthusiasm for life. She takes you back to the time in college when all the good romantic things were within your grasp...
Later, during lengthy interviews with MacGraw and her husband in Manhattan, Cronin was further impressed, as was Researcher Michele Whitney, by Ali's essential simplicity and lack of glitter, the Teddy bears she adores, the wonderful junk that she collects-such things as silver-and-gold fans inscribed "Souvenir of the 1897 Exposition." To Film Critic Stefan Kanfer, who has been following Ali's career since she first appeared in Goodbye Columbus, her sudden leap to stardom is a classic example of "cinema inventing its own faces. When it needed the gritty reflection of urban reality, it found...
...last Monday he did so by quietly firing Joseph A. Spadafora, the man whom he had appointed only two weeks before to assist Cronin as Ex??? Director of rent control...
...Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee is asking Cronin harder questions and using all the confrontation tactics they can muster to ask them. Monday they held a rally in front of City Hall demanding an end to all evictions and a further downward adjustment of rents. Within the CTOC there are varying degrees of militancy. Bill Cunningham, one of the leaders of the CTOC, hasrefused since May to pay the $25 rent increase that his landlord demanded. After three attempts his landlord has finally succeeded in evicting him, but it took twenty police armed with clubs to do so. The tall, gaunt...