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...LONE INCUMBENT not seeking reelection to the City Council in November, Robert P. Moncreiff perhaps typifies the liberal professional's venture into politics: A successful lawyer as well as a concerned citizen, Moncreiff, has become more familiar with frustration than achievement in his four years on the Council. Yet far from feeling bitter over past defeats, Moncreiff's chief regret is that he cannot continue to play a major role in the pitched battle that is government in Cambridge...
...Moncreiff was born in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He remained there until 1942, when his father was called to diplomatic service in Washington. Young Moncreiff went to public high school in the capital and then on to Yale, where his political hero was Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, "Mr. Republican." "I was a political moron in college, a carbon copy of my father," he admits...
...Moncreiff did well enough at Yale to win a Rhodes scholarship, an experience which he still regards as very important. It was during one of his frequent excursions to the Continent that he met his wife, Elisabeth, in Austria. In 1954, Moncreiff entered Harvard Law School and began to regard Cambridge as his home. Upon graduation from the Law School in 1957, he joined the Boston firm of Palmer and Doge, where he has been a partner since...
...young lawyer became active in local politics, mainly through the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). Moncreiff participated in the CCA's School Affairs Committee and various campaign activities, and in 1963 he managed a successful campaign for Francis H. Duehay '55 for the School Committee. Duehay, dean of admissions and studies at the Graduate School of Education, is now one of Moncreiff's colleagues on the Council running for re-election...
...during which some bitterness does not break the surface. Shortly after the city manager controversy last fall, the Council formed a subcommittee on cable television at Owens' suggestion. Contrary to normal Council procedure, Mayor Barbara Ackermann, a member of the CCA slate, passed over Owens and named Councillor Robert Moncreiff chairman of the subcommittee. Owens protested loudly and Ackermann replied that the maneuver constituted a "studied insult." Since that time Owens has attempted through several different motions to have himself named chairman. His proposals have usually wound up sitting on the table for weeks as other councillors seemed reluctant...