Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What these five pulled off Monday by selecting a mayor of their own choice and then ousting John J. Curry '19, city manager for the past 14 years, was no less than a full-scale insurrection. And the easiest way to understand the dramatic shift is as a revolt of the outs against...
...some senses, Monday's revolt was political. The five Councillors thought that Curry, at 67, was getting too old for the job, that he hadn't taken a dynamic enough position on prospective capital improvements for the City, and that his administration was growing too complacent. In DeGuglielmo they found someone who seemed more active, forthright, and progressive. (Actually, DeGuglielmo found them, for it was he who wanted the manager's job and labored to pick up the necessary majority...
...more fundamental sense, the revolt was personal. Somehow the Councillors seemed to feel that no one was taking them into consideration. They felt slighted, and they were resentful...
...this close relationship and its consequences that helped create Monday's revolt. With Crane in office for six years (three consecutive terms, something unprecedented under the city manager form of government), and with the mayor and manager cooperating so well together, the Councillors felt a little manhandled, especially the younger members...
...weeks, the debate raged between the opposing Baathist cliques, and being Syrians, Jadid's men naturally began plotting a coup to topple Hafez from his position as head of the powerful Presidency Council, which serves as a sort of collective chief of state. Two days before the revolt was to come off last month, the garrison commander at Horns jumped the gun by arresting three pro-Hafez officers-counting on Syria's notoriously poor telephone and telegraph communications to keep the word from reaching the capital 90 miles away. The news got back anyway, and the conspiratorial commanders...