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DeGuiglielmo, now a Boston Municipal Court judge, says he can't talk about his role in Cambridge politics, but he can still be seen sipping coffee every morning with his brethren over at Wursthaus, as he has for the last 20 years. Although Frank Cardullo, proprietor of Wursthaus and klatch-master of the Rinky Dinks, a club consisting of several Middlesex and Suffolk County judges and a handful of registrars, insists that the conversation is lighthearted political fun, it is widely held that DeGuiglielmo plotted the coup that would overthrew John Curry in 1966 and place himself in as city...
...scene at the Longfellow gymnasium yesterday, where the counting is taking place, was relaxed and informal. The clerks, who appeared to be mostly housewives and senior citizens, conducted their work in coffee-klatch fashion--a marked contrast to the high tension, computerized systems used in most elections...