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...real unsung heroes were the neighbors who had been under a state of stage since the disruption began." Said Cambridge Mavor Leonard J Russell...
City Councilors David E. Clem, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy and Walter J. Sullivan opposed releasing the petitions, while Barbara Ackermann, Francis H. Duehay '55, Saundra Graham and Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci voted to release. City Councilor Leonard J. Russel, who has consistently voted against the con- dominium curbs and rent control, left the meeting before the roll-call...
...takes. Beyond that, not many people who'd been clattering about the show before it opened Wednesday knew much about it. Not even the city councilors, who wanted to go on record as having opposed the granting of a license, had much idea what they were trying to ban. Mavor Alfred E. Vellucci (who was actually in favor of granting the theater a license to show "Calcutta") kept referring to the mystery show as a movie. Councilor Leonard Russell kept denouncing the "Combat Zone type of show" as one that would "threaten the lives of hundreds of children...
Three hundred spectators jammed the School Committee meeting room a week after the incident, expecting a public confrontation between the two men at the Committee's first meeting of the term. Cheatham failed to appear--"on the advice of counsel," according to Mavor Barbara Ackermann--and Frisoli occupied the Superintendent's chair...
City voters still recognize that an urban crisis exists, but they seem to be thinking of it in other terms. Rizzo was the candidate of Mavor Tate's machine, and he called upon voters to reject Green and the "lef?ies" who surrounded him. Like Daley, Rizzo is neither young nor liberal. Voters supported both men because they played upon voters' fears and embodied their new ideas as to what should be done for the cities. It is understandable (though unfortunate) that voters should oppose liberals but it's frightening that they have chosen men like Rizzo and Daley...