Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important, Crane left a political, social and economic vacuum so large that no one person could fill it. Ever since the Crane-DeGuiglielmo split the city council has suffered from a political divisiveness that renders it helpless in coping with Cambridge's major problems. The shattered body has already gone through twice as many city managers since Crane left than it did in all the years that he reigned. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Jones criticizes the council for playing politics above all other concerns. "City Council just doesn't have a leader in the crowd. Many are unhappy...
...this vacuum that Crane decided to fill. The CCA backed candidate fought his way onto the council and with the help of political and collegiate pal Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29, a man with Crane-like credentials, wasted no time in manipulating Cambridge's first city manager, John Atkinson, into making 13 years of yes-man decisions...
Expensive Gems. In Boston, the city's only private indoor tennis club has closed its rolls, while its 1,300 members (at $100 dues and $10 per hour) fill eight courts 16 hours a day. Elegant jewelry stores in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles say that sales of expensive gems are better than ever. At the National Boat Show in Manhattan last month, sales and attendance were way up over last year. Marvelled Managing Director Frank Scalpone: "These people don't care about money...
...highest-ranking groups of alumni in the University. If nothing else, the members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers are the alumni most honored by Harvard. So it's disappointing that they're overwhelmingly male and corporate in composition, and that it appears they will both fill their vacancies this spring with more businessmen...
...will be one this spring because of the retirement of Albert H. Nickerson '33--are appointed by a four--member committee, three of whose members are now on the Corporation. Judging from statements by committee members this month, it seems fairly certain that they will choose a businessman to fill Nickerson's place, continuing the Corporation's 340-year tradition of being all male...