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SINCE 1966, the hiring and firing of city managers has dominated the political scene in Cambridge. Before that everything was kept in order by the city's boss figure, Edward A. Crane '35, and his hand-picked city manger, John J. Curry '19. But Crane's one-man rule resulted in mutiny. A coalition of liberal and independent councilors ousted Curry and hired Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 in February 1966. DeGuglielmo lasted only through the next election and was fired in January 1968. The Council embarked on an extensive search for a replacement and finally came up with James...
...this. As Bob Guillemin, the name he goes by when he's not working in the streets, Sam spent two years at the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris after receiving a Masters in Fine Arts at Boston University. Since his return from Paris he has had a one-man show at Brandeis, served as president of the Visual Arts Union in Boston, and exhibited his works at the fashionable Parker 470 Gallery...
Hatful of Tricks. The police delegation includes NBC's Chase, starring Mitchell Ryan as the head of an undercover unit specializing in impossible missions, and ABC's Torna, starring Tony Musante as a one-man undercover unit specializing in disguises. NBC'S Police Story, created by Police Sergeant and Author Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions), promises to be of the more official uniformed badge-flipping genre...
...already in his second film to resort to autobiography--he sees himself as a kind of Dustin Hoffman character, and shamelessly tacks "Scarborough Fair" onto the sound track--then is much touted "possibilities" must be questioned. Animation demands new tricks all the time, and it seems doubtful whether any one-man show--and especially this one--can continue to provide them for very long...
Cool Hand Luke. Paul Newman plays the kind of role only a Nixon could dislike in this tale of a one-man fight against the cruelties of a southern chain-gang. His attempts to buck the system make him something of a charming Christ figure to his fellow prisoners. Unfortunately, Pontius Pilate has always had the last laugh in this kind of Christian symbolism, and resurrection wasn't written into the script. If you liked Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you won't want to miss this. The supporting cast is good too, with George Kennedy...