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...busing by "Jack Kennedy's people." How could anyone be so ignorant, so uncaring, so racist? After all, this line of reasoning went, hadn't most of the country accepted the need to comply with Brown v. Board of Education? Why couldn't Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan? The implication, of course, was that at home and in their own lives these liberals were immune from the virulent racism exhibited at Andrew Square and G Street. No, at home, in Newton and Chevy Chase and Wellesley and Ardmore and Darien and Scarsdale and everywhere else there was a rational...
...THERE ARE THREE THINGS that make this country great: education, law 'n order and civil service...the liberal conspiracy has destroyed two of 'em and almost the third." Boston City Councilor Albert "Dapper" O'Neil was engaging in his favorite pastime, entertaining a reporter. Fellow City Councilor John Kerrigan added, "Capper will do anything for publicity, get a raincoat and flash." Kerrigan was flapping the labels of his leisure suit and making a long stroking gesture...
THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR has made Dapper the Joey Gallo of the City Council. Though he has no allies, O'Neil refuses to make deals or cooperate with the Mayor. "White can shove that patronage up his ass," he says bluntly. While Kerrigan and Council President Hicks have carefully built up their patronage machines and index card files, Dapper performs favors without collecting IOU's. When many Councilors spent over $40,000 in their re-election campaigns, Dapper limited his budget to $1800 and hired no employees. The media has an unofficial black-out on his many charges...
...general, the Bicentennial events in the East did not attract Westerners in overwhelming numbers. One explanation, put forth by James L. Kerrigan, president of Greyhound Lines, whose business is off 6% this summer, is that "people worried a lot about overcrowding and a possible lack of hotel space in the East." As it turned out, the fear was unjustified. One-fourth of Philadelphia's hotel rooms were unoccupied during the Fourth of July weekend; hotels in Washington and Boston were also nowhere near filled...
...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...