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After a short debate among the nine councillors. Vellucci's motion failed by a 5-4 vote with the five Cambridge Civic Association councillors--Mayor Barbara Ackermann, Saundra Graham, Henry F. Owens. Robert Moncreiff, and Francis Duehay--voting against the motion while independents Vellucci, Walter Sullivan, Daniel Clinton, and Thomas Danehy voted for the order...
...other side of the liberal fence sits Henry Owens. Robert Moncreiff, and Frank Dueahy. Owens will be the toughie and his carefully cultivated middle-of-the-road stance will be hard to keep up once atual voting on issues such as daycare takes place. A millionaire's son, Owens received a substantial portion of his campaign contributions from landlords and other such monied interests, and will have a hard time resisting the lure of voting the way the big boys want him to. He is incredibly ambitious and one can only speculate where this ambition will lead him. Most observes...
...Moncreiff, the Rhodes Scholar Republican, will be a different sort of problem for reformers Graham and Ackermann. His campaign ptich that the only thing that needed to get Cambridge back on the road to good government was the firing of the City Manager leaves one with the feeling that he's taking a little too simplistic an approach to the City's problems. At one point during the campaign he said. "Most of the talk about rent control and day care is a lot of baloney--the important thing is to get a new City Manager." But Moncreiff, whose constituency...
...third, and in an many ways, most enigmatic of the three liberal "keys" is Frank Duehay '55, Dean of admissions at the Graduate School of Education and former vice-chariman of the School Committee. He takes a fairly strong stand on rent control but he shares Moncreiff's belief that one of the largest problems facing Cambridge is the firing of the City Manager. He does go a little farther than Moncreiff in feeling that the entire City Hall bureaucracy should be managerial-corporate view of the city government but he too should be open to strong pressure from Ackermann...
...issue of daycare should offer some insight into how the new council will react toward reform and innovation. The daycare referendum passed with a 60 per cent yes vote in the election and it is certain that Ackermann, Graham, and Owens will support 24-hour daycare. Duehay and Moncreiff should be a little hesitant and what they say in Council and how they vote should give a strong key to the strength and cohensiveness of the supposed new liberal majority...