Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to demonstrate graphically the potential hazards of recombinant DNA research at Harvard, Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci challenges a giant, 400-1b. recombinant clam to a wrestling match over a giant vat of linguini, "I'll come away with enough clam sauce for 100 campaigns," he avers. The clam wins, however, and eats the linguini with sauce marinara. Vellucci retires to Taormina, Sicily, to recuperate...
Sources close to the Cambridge City Council announce that Dean Henry Rosovsky "will not be the next mayor of Cambridge" because he does not feel he can abandon his review of undergraduate education "at this time." In a rare show of solidarity, the council unanimously selects the giant recombinant clam as the new mayor, after the clam promises to continue former Mayor Vellucci's practices of "keeping Harvard on its toes," "swing voting, and pastadigition...
After several months of fruitless pleading with the Carter administration and Congress for an extension of emergency aid to New York City, Mayor Edward I. Koch announces the acquisition of "five or six neutron bombs." Comments Koch: "I have nothing against Washington itself, you understand, it's just some of the people there...
...Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...
President Derek Bok announces a clambake for Cambridge senior citizens in Harvard Yard. The Mayor of Cambridge says he is "not amused" and announces the formation of a "clamshell alliance" in response to Bok's announcement...