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Timilty probably wouldn't be able to find any more overwhelming issues to run on this year anyway. Busing is done with, despite the political comebacks of Louise Day Hicks and Pixie Palladino, strong performers in the city council and school committee preliminaries. And campaign news will have to fight for newspaper space with the Pope's visit and the dedication of the Kennedy Library, complete with President Carter and Ted Kennedy...
...hacks and demagogues have survived the election; Councilors Albert "Dapper" O'Neil and Frederick C. Langone did retain their seats. But the three losers, Councilors Louise Day Hicks and John Kerrigan and School Committee member Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, each represented a special facet of Boston's malevolent underside. Whether Hicks and Palladino gain the hundred odd votes they need to win in a recount remains irrelevant because, compared to previous elections, this year's results are a clear repudiation of the trinity that stood for patronage and prejudice...
...veneer of civilization that Hicks wore, never refraining from publicly using offensive racial slurs or admitting he exploited patronage opportunities. After the media and the investigative Boston Finance Commission pilloried him last spring over his no-show staff worker, Kerrigan also exceeded the city's level of tolerance. Palladino is the easiest case to explain. She first rode the anti-busing wave into office in 1975 and is now stranded in the low tide of voter disgust...
...which Hicks, Kerrigan and Palladino lose to Sansone and O'Bryant is clearly something of a bonanza for Boston, the referenda defeats and Flynn notwithstanding. And with moderate Councilor James Michael Connolly and School Committee President Kathleen Sullivan topping their tickets, there seems to be a significant improvement. The importance of these results, however, has been overblown. There has been no major change in Boston, only a reaffirmation of the lackluster. Sullivan and Connolly are responsible for no major innovations or progressive actions. They are young, educated, ambitious people who know better than to walk along Broadway Avenue in Southie...
...losing incumbent Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, had first won a seat in 1975 after newspapers printed a picture of her punching Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 at an anti-busing rally...