Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case is much the same with most of the other six incumbents in the race. Though their anti-rent control position may hurt them a little, Walter J. Sullivan (Ind.) and Edward A. Crane '35 (CCA) will probably top the ticket again and win election on the first round with votes from their respective bases among lower-income Irish and more affluent Irish. Vellucci will sweep up East Cambridge "number ones," add a few votes from Sullivan's surplus, get some more when weaker Italian and Portuguese candidates are eliminated, and make it into the winner's circle after...
...Daniel H. J. Hayes Jr. (Ind.). Though a former mayor and probably the most competent of the Independent councilors, Hayes has never been a strong runner (he finished eighth last time) and is locked in a struggle with Danchy for North Cambridge votes. Though as mayor Haves began the first real move to get the universities to ease Cambridge housing shortages, he became the local point of the rent control bitterness, probably because rent control backers felt his vote was the one they could swing. This combined with his prominent role in the City Manager struggle...
...retiring councilors were part of the coalition which hired Sullivan, the manager seems to feel that he can gain the support of a majority of the new council, and he is a man sensitive to the way the political wind is blowing in the City. For the first time since 1963, then, the council elections may not presage the firing of a city manager. Considering the havoc the successive city manager fights brought to City government, that would be no small blessing...
...first time since the Columbia game three weeks ago. Harvard's football team last Saturday came up with an acceptable offensive performance...
...Harvard received the opening kickoff and in seven plays moved 60 yards to a first down on the Penn 10-yard line. But a desperate Quaker line dropped halfback Ray Hornblower on a second-and-six play and stocked up fullback. Tom Miller on the goal line to take over on downs. It was the first of a discouraging series of stalled Harvard drives, and foreshadowed the second consecutive game in which the Crimson has failed to put together a drive for a touchdown...