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...performance of Cambridge's only municipal political organization, the Civic Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are not exactly widespread, the CCA has never been able to elect more than four of the nine Councilors. These seats correspond roughly to the influence of the Harvard-Brattle-St.-M.I.T. district and the influence of the rest of Cambridge. Give or take a seat, it is a healthy balance for the city...
This year, the CCA is conducting its usual pressured campaign to re-elect the four incumbents and to pick up two more seats. With all nine Councilors standing again for election, the CCA forces have a predictably rough time in securing the desired two seats...
Even before his inauguration. John Kennedy knew he would have to start casting about for a new U.S. intelligence chief: Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Welsh Dulles told the President elect that he hoped to retire within a year. After the disaster of the Cuba invasion, in which CIA estimates and planning came under heavy fire, the question of Dulles' successor was a common subject of Washington gossip. Last week, in a brief public ceremony at the Newport. R.I., Naval War College, President Kennedy announced that Dulles, 68, would retire in November after eight years...
Brief Sputter. Goldberg had met Jack Kennedy while testifying before the House Education and Labor Committee. The two men became friends with a common interest. Says Goldberg: "We would sit around discussing the philosophy of various aspects of labor for hours." When President-elect Kennedy tapped him for Labor Secretary, Goldberg told him to discuss the choice with other people. Kennedy did, got an affirmative consensus, although George Meany sputtered briefly before agreeing. (Because Goldberg has never carried a union membership card, Meany has never really considered him an honest-to-overalls labor...
...ceiling on the state debt. Like many another state constitution, it apportions legislative representation in a fashion that is, after half a century of shifting population, totally unrealistic. The only real issue, after voters last spring approved a convention to draft a new constitution, was which party would elect more delegates to the convention and thus get to write the new constitution...