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...order passed only after a motion by Councillor Robert Moncreiff to table it for a week failed. Moncreiff and Councillors Saundra Graham and Frank H. Duehay '55 questioned the ability of the agency to serve all the youth of Cambridge, citing a Crimson feature story which criticized the operation of YRB. "This article could be the worst piece of yellow journalism ever written," Duehay said. "But there is an undercurrent of criticism about this agency that deserves to be answered...
...Moncreiff: "I think it's time to close the book on it...The ability of people to work together is obviously hampered...
...Moncreiff asked for a suspension of the rules so that the Council could immediately deal' with the matter of the City Manager. The rules were suspended and Duehay explained that his forthcoming vote, on a motion by Danehy urging of the Council's vote to fire Corcoran on August 2, is not an easy...
...Moncreiff also gave his reasons for ending the battle: "There is a great deal to be said for continuity, for not changing the City Manager every two years, I hope he (Corcoran) will to conduct himself that his removed will not be an home in the next elections...
...other hand, why didn't Ackermann, Duehay, Graham and Moncreiff have two or three compromise condidates of their own in back of Peterson, so fall back on in case something prevented Peterson's appointment...