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Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton waited six months before accepting the military's invitation while staff members debated whether they would be making nuclear war more feasible by participating, said James Kerrigan, the hospital's chief of staff...
...Boston Information Center and Massachusetts Citizens Against Forced Busing, sprang up throughout the city, apparently creating organizations and resources solely out of the intensity of their emotions. State Senator and current mayoral candidate Joseph Timilty (D-Mattapan) declared himself a "bitter foe" of busing, and School Committee Chairman John Kerrigan declared, "I'm opposed to desegration and I'm going to fight it in the Legislature and in the Courts...
...hacks and demagogues have survived the election; Councilors Albert "Dapper" O'Neil and Frederick C. Langone did retain their seats. But the three losers, Councilors Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan and School Committee member Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, each represented a special facet of Boston's malevolent underside. Whether Hicks and Palladino gain the hundred odd votes they need to win in a recount remains irrelevant because, compared to previous elections, this year's results are a clear repudiation of the trinity that stood for patronage and prejudice...
...losing, Hicks--Boston's first lady of racism--proved that old political hustlers are dying out. For decades, Hicks had capitalized on the same prejudices and taken every liberty possible with school committee and city budgets. Kerrigan had always lacked the veneer of civilization that Hicks wore, never refraining from publicly using offensive racial slurs or admitting he exploited patronage opportunities. After the media and the investigative Boston Finance Commission pilloried him last spring over his no-show staff worker, Kerrigan also exceeded the city's level of tolerance. Palladino is the easiest case to explain. She first rode...
...which Hicks, Kerrigan and Palladino lose to Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie...