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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is the king of street smarts. A seventh grade dropout who speaks four languages, he has parlayed his flair for dramatics into a 22-year city council career, with a unique combination of New Deal-type liberalism and old-fashioned, neighborhood politics. Though he has not lost a race since he was first elected to the school committee in 1951 (when he says he "beat the pants off of Professor Raubough of Harvard"), Vellucci's fortunes, unbuffered by formal alliances or organizations, have never been secure. In 1975 he finished eighth in a nine-seat race...
...What were they going to do, vote for [City Councilor Thomas W.] Danehy?" He is the swing vote for the liberal coalition on practically every significant issue, including rent control, approval of a civilian police commissioner and combining Cambridge's two high schools (the mayor also serves as the seventh member of the school committee, which is split, 3-3, liberal-independent). Vellucci still plays by his own rules, however, often holding out his vote until the final moment for the sake of political and dramatic effect. School Committeeman Glenn S. Koocher '71 says Vellucci waited six months before agreeing...
...election commission sets the quota, which is one-tenth plus one of all votes cast for council seats and one-seventh plus one for the school committee...
Yesterday's unseemly performance was especially hard to swallow since last year the Crimson placed second behind the Tigers with both Rafto and Eichner earning all-Ivy honors by virtue of finishing seventh and eighth respectively...
...Sheehan seventh in 24:46. Brandeis had 54 points to win, Northeastern 55, Harvard...