Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around Cambridge, City Council candidates are worried. They spend all day courting rumors, but still have no idea how they're doing. "I could get thousands of votes--I could get almost none," one candidate mourned last week. "We're all in the eye of the storm," council incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser added last week. Like the racetrack, everyone else is in the dark too. "More people have given me more theories in the last week than I can remember," one city observer said Friday. "And none of them were right," he added...
...crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
...supporters are counting on different shifts in city voters. One is the rising fear among tenants that rent control is in serious trouble here--in the course of the last two years, most cities in the area have ended rent controls. When they were lifted next door in Somerville, rents soared--a fact to which CCA politicians frequently refer. At the same time, the number of condominium conversions in Cambridge has increased dramatically. Only the frantic legal scrambling of CCA councilors slowed down the condo boom this year, and the prospect of renewed conversions may scare many tenants...
...Concerned Cambridge Citizens, which refused to pledge its support to continuation of rent control. The other councilor Sullivan might draw votes from is Mary Ellen Preusser. "If he knocks someone out, it will be another CCA candidate--they all draw from the same pool of supporters," one observer predicted last week, although the possibility that the weakest conservative could fall also exists...
...split time of 5:15. The second mile led the runners up a winding and rocky trail which Coach Pappy Hunt described as "wet and treacherous" from the rain the night before. The pack slowed its pace here as passing became difficult on the narrow path. During the last mile the tempo picked up as the course began to wind downhill...