Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sullivan said that during the "fracas" in the Yard the many students who lived there and were watching "behaved like real gentlemen." He went on record as congratulating those students as well as President Pusey and the police
After nearly two hours of emotional debate, the Cambridge City Council last night passed a resolution praising President Pusey and the Cambridge Police Department for their "courageous stand" in dealing with the University Hall demonstrators. Six Councillors voted for the resolution introduced by Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, while two voted present and one voted...
Councillor Barbara W. Ackermann, who voted against the resolution, had earlier asked for a complete review of the police action in view of "serious allegations of police brutality appearing in the national press." Mrs. Ackermann's motion was left on the table after Sullivan's was passed...
Speaking against the Sullivan resolution, Mrs. Ackermann said "I don't think that President Pusey was right. I ask you to do our police department the service of looking into the charges of brutality." Councillor Edward A. Crane '35, who voted for the resolution, answered Mrs. Ackermann by saying that the "isolated cases of brutality are incidental. The fundamental question is whether you take a stand against self-proclaimed revolutionaries." Crane also said that he personally witnessed the pilferage of desks in the basement of University Hall. "I saw one young person take out of a desk a roll...
Baroque Speeches. The ceremonies onstage were scarcely more delicate. Gower Champion's miscued staging was reminiscent of The Ed Sullivan Show on an off night. The dancing was strictly St. Vitus, the hollow banter almost made one hunger for the elaborate thanks of yesteryear...