Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FLOOR of the Cambridge City Council's chambers, there is a massive table where City department heads sit when the Council grills them. Come into the chambers during the Council's meeting on Monday and, likely as not, you'll see Robert E. Rudolph, the Director of Traffic and Parking, sitting behind the table sometime during the afternoon...
...Council's interrogations of Rudolph are so frequent that they've become stylized. The Traffic Director walks in, hitches up his trousers, puts his briefcase on the floor, and nervously lights his cigarette. His eyes dart first toward the Mayor's chair and then over to his left, where Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci sits...
...long list, but I'll save it for another night when we'll make you the big star here." Rudolph was lucky that time; only one other councillor quizzed him about traffic problems. Sometimes every one of the nine councillors takes his turn with Rudolph, grilling the Traffic Director about problems in his particular bailiwick...
Throughout the sessions, Rudolph keeps repeating: "I'll try it if that's what you want, sir," or simply, "Yes sir." His silver pen makes notes of the Council's requests in a black book. If the Traffic Director has the men and money, he acts on the problems; otherwise, they remain until the next go-around drags them up again...
...Traffic Director insists that even the abbreviated pattern has helped traffic flows around Harvard, but critics feel that cars, even if they move faster for awhile, still get caught in the same old bottleneck in Harvard Square. Complaining letters flow in the Cambridge Chronicle. Even poets take their crack at Rudolph. In April, a poem by a senior citizen and longtime Cantabrigian" appeared in the Chronicle. In this poem Paul Revere, on a second ride, got lost in the Traffic Director's latest pattern. Rudolph was moved to respond in kind, and an exchange of poems began in the paper...