Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers also outlined their groups' proposed anti-war activities for November 13-15. The New Mobilization is sponsoring the March Against Death in Washington, while the New Moratorium will organize local Boston demonstrations...
...Independent councilors, Hayes has never been a strong runner (he finished eighth last time) and is locked in a struggle with Danchy for North Cambridge votes. Though as mayor Haves began the first real move to get the universities to ease Cambridge housing shortages, he became the local point of the rent control bitterness, probably because rent control backers felt his vote was the one they could swing. This combined with his prominent role in the City Manager struggle of 1965-68, has made Hayes a controversial figure. He has been running scared this time taking half hour radio spots...
This ability to get along with so many different kinds of people isn't necessarily a blessing in Cambridge. For instance, Francis has the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association, the local good government society. In the Brattle Street area where City Councilors like Tom Mahoney and Barbara Ackermann get their votes this endorsement is a help. But down in East Cambridge, the home of Al Vellucci, CCA is a dirty word...
What Hayes wants is another Harvard evaluation with local businesses helping too. He feels the University owes at least that much to the city. But this time he says, Cambridge must be in control and must make its own decision about what to do to change the system...
...universities must also take more local boys, he says, "When I worked with the Tutoring Plus program (an intensive tutoring course for high school students) I worked with one boy who had 700 college boards. Harvard turned him down because they said 'his environment was not conducive to further academic progress.' That boy is now in prison. The feeling is 'I'm never going to get into Harvard or M. I. T. anyway, so why bother trying...