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This elected prankster is not unique in the city. School Committeewoman Elvira "Pixie" Palladino ("She's got balls," Dapper says) achieved her notoriety by slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white...
...member she wishes to push aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the anti-busing campaign last year. Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away...
...member she wishes to push aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the antibusing campaign last year, Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start...
...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...
School committee chairman John J. McDonough was elected to his sixth term, finishing second, but Ellison, facing charges of alleged misuse of school department funds and hampered by a broken leg, was unable to ward off the challenge of Palladino, an outspoken busing...