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Johnson, the black Deputy City Manager of Kansas City, Mo., is Owens's candidate, Peterson, the white former City Administrator of New Brunswick. N.J., has long been the choice of Ackermann and fellow CCA-Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff...
...Council adjourned. Councillor Henry F. Owens III disclosed that a telephone call was momentarily expected from James Johnson, the black deputy city manager of Kansas City, Mo, Owens has apparently succeeded in forcing three of his liberal colleagues on the Council--Ackermann, Francis H. Duehay '55 and Robert Moncreiff--to reconsider Johnson for the City Manager...
Johnson was interviewed by the liberal councillors on April 2 but he did not participate in the citizen interviews. Owens has charged that Duehay. Moncreiff and Ackermann told him they were "locked in" to voting for Howard C. "Neil" Peterson, former city administrator of New Brunswick, N.J. Peterson, only 28 years old, is the favorite...
Owens wants to make sure that his black candidate for the job be given equal consideration with white candidates. But Ackermann, Duehay and Moncreiff think they have already found the best man for the job, and he is white...
Whether the liberals can get their house in order and stop maneuvering for political advantage is an open question. As Moncreiff says, the problem is no longer of getting the majority of five out of nine, but of getting the five to agree on something...