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...implications of the system were lucidly reflected last month by the peculiar turnabout of Committeeman George F. Olesen. Olesen decided last spring that he wouldn't run for reelection, and the Committee is losing its most colorful though hardly its most progressive members. Olesen is a tall, slightly stooped young man, who roams around the Committee room during meetings, whispering messages into his fellow Independent's ears, always appearing to be lining up the votes for some obscure maneuver. He cross-examines witnesses with the pugnacious gusto of a TV lawyer, and has attacked Mrs. Ackermann with such virulence that...
...Much of Olesen's fire was reserved for Harvard and M.I.T. He dredged up an article last spring that called his neighborhood "a model area for slum renewal," and read the whole thing to the Committee. He attacked the Model Cities program as "Another attempt by the Universities to act as God and take over these areas." "I'm just one voice, a poor guy from the corner drugstore," he said, "but I have to fight this thing...
...Olesen dropped a bomb in October with a motion that a three-man Committee of Ed School deans from Universities in the area be put in charge of screening candidates. The three stunned CCA members voted for the motion and it passed, despite angry protests from Fitzgerald and Hayes. Olesen listened to their attacks slumped in his chair with his head in his hands and his eyes closed. "I'm not a candidate for the School Committee," he said revealingly, defending the motion; "tonight I speak as a parent and my only interest is the best education for my children...
...faces on next year's Committee will probably be Daniel J. Clinton and David A. Wylie. Clinton, who has just missed election twice before drew heavily on the central Cambridge votes that used to go to Committeeman George F. Olesen. And Wylie, one of nine candidates endorsed by the CCA, wooed support from the same constituency that elected Committeewoman Barbara Ackermann who this year ran for the Council...
...nine incumbents are running again for the Council, and four incumbent school committeemen--Francis H. Duehay, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Education, Gustave M. Solomons, James F. Fitzgerald, and John A. P. Good--have filed for the School Committee. Of the other two current committeemen, George F. Olesen Jr. is not seeking re-election, and Barbara Ackerman is a Council candidate...