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Another likely candidate for mayor is Councilor Thomas McNamara, who has received the pledge of Al Vellucci's vote on the first ballot. In the 1956 elections, McNamara abstained for two weeks before casting the fifth and deciding ballot for Sullivan...
Other CCA candidates re-elected were Edward A. Crane '35, Pearl K. Wise, and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29. Independents who won are Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, John D. Lynch, Alfred Vellucci, Thomas M. McNamara, and Charles A. Watson. Sullivan again ran far ahead of the other councilors...
There are two other incumbents running for the City Council--Charles A. Watson and Thomas McNamara--both of whom are real independents, in that they are neither tied to the Mayor nor to the CCA. Assuming that the CCA does not elect a majority of the Council, there is a good chance that either Watson or McNamara will receive the backing of the CCA minority for the mayoralty...
...event, the candidates whose names are prefixed by a "CCA points the way" sign are, in general, the best ones running. With the exception of a few non-CCA city Council candidates like McNamara and Watson, the CCA men are the best hope for a reasonably clean Cambridge over the next two years...
...arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There was conservative Goldwater blandly agreeing with Teamster Hoffa ("I am very hopeful that your philosophy prevails") on the role of organized labor in the U.S. economy, in a windy discourse that had both...