Word: deadlocking
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...Lions Ed Schockley and Larry Combs popped from downtown but Cyrus Booker netted two from the line to deadlock...
...Deadlock...
...their ballots for an unknown councilor, a nobody, someone not even campaigning for the post. He in turn, in a moment of glee, shouted his own name. And then, maybe by mistake, or sheer exhaustion, the anonymous councilor accumulated a fourth, and then a fifth and final nod. The deadlock was smashed. The councilors awaited the bang of the clerk's gavel officially ending the stalemate...
...race for the 1973 mayoralty showed to what great lengths some of the councilors are willing to go for a crack at the mayor's post. After weathering a deadlock that took the councilors into February, Walter J. Sullivan, a moderately conservative independent, promised to vote for a new city manager, in return for the four liberal votes needed to make him mayor...
...concrete deals in the wind, a couple of things seem obvious. The independents, hopelessly divided by their own selfishness and vanity, don't seem to be able to compromise at this moment. The liberals, strongly united by their progressive Cambridge Convention platform, stand a better chance to break the deadlock. They would do well to ask a recently-friendly independent, such as Alfred Vellucci, to endorse a good deal of their platform, including the needed retention of rent control, in exchange for their four votes. A liberal mayor would be best for Cambridge, but that's unlikely, given the liberals...