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...Edward A. Crane. DeGuglielmo left the manager's office last January in the same way he entered it two years before--in a bitter battle in the Council. In 1966, DeGuglielmo, a former mayor of the City, rounded up five votes on the council to dismiss John J. Curry '19, who, with the close counsel of Crane, had served as manager for 13 years. During the next two years, the council minority led by Crane sniped away at DeGuglielmo's supporters. In last November's election, their efforts were rewarded, two of the City Manager's five votes...
...Council is now split three ways over the manager issue. The deepest division--one created by two and a half years of infighting--is between the five councillors who voted to fire DeGuglielmo, and the former City Manager's three supporters on the Council--Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and Cornelia B. Wheeler. As DeGuglielmo becomes more a memory, this chasm may be bridge, but for the moment it still exists...
Just next door to Harvard--along Putnam Ave. down to the Charles--is the home territory of Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, member of one of the City's powerful political families. At best the Sullivans have, over the years, maintained an uneasy relationship with the University whose Houses now stand where their families grew up in the early part of the century. Sullivan, who has said little about the firing of DeGuglielmo, has made clear his preference for a native-born City Manager...
Meanwhile, the council stays divided, and Ralph J. Dunphy remains in the City Manager's office. Last week, he asked for an appropriation of $100 for medical expenses of his office. One councillor--a pharmacist by trade--suggested that the money would go to Bufferin. His colleagues laughed, but not too heartily, for they knew the headaches that Cambridge politics can bring.John G. ShortA meeting of the City Council...
...J. C. BENSICK...