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...year-old mayor served an earlier term as mayor in the years 1968 through 1969 and has sat in the City Council chambers since 1959. In recent years, Sullivan has been Cambridge's largest vote-getter...
Adlai E. Stevenson III, 43, has little of his late father's eloquence, but has proved every bit as successful a vote getter in Illinois. In his first campaign in 1964, he outdrew all 235 other candidates for the state legislature, two years later led the Democratic ticket again when he ran for state treasurer. Since his election to the Senate in 1970 to complete Everett Dirksen's term, Stevenson has been one of the Nixon Administration's sharpest critics. Scholarly and hardworking, he called for funds to develop alternative energy sources as far back...
Sullivan, who served as mayor for two years (1968-69) and who is the city's top vote-getter, solicited liberal support in his mayoral bid in return for support in his mayoral bid in return for support of the liberals' move to replace City Manager John H. Corcoran...
...both of those before it. The 16 elected residents include three clergymen, a financial consultant, several welfare recipients, and one gas meter inspector. Frank Fraumeni, a 24-year-old former board chairman, now unemployed, received the most votes in neighborhood three. Father Currun was the most successful vote getter in neighborhood four. "But they put a ballot box in front of his church," Fraumeni says with a smile...
FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND, 57, also a former Resistance leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished...