Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four of the five councilor who voted against rent control are running again; they seem to feel that the issue-volatile though it may be-has not eroded their traditional bases of support. "The people who sit out there and yell at you to do something are never the ones who really vote for you anyway," says one of the four...
...former Rhodes Scholar and like her, CCA and a Republican. With this vote, Moncreiff seems to have a pretty good chance of election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some may go to James W. Caragianes (Ind.) who, like Goldberg, draws a lot of support in Mid-Cambridge; others will flow towards School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton (Ind.) who, with this new support and an old base of votes from his School Committee races, may make it onto the council...
...strength. A former councilor, he began running again moments after he was defeated in 1967. Yet, if he or another black is to win, the black voters will have to mark their ballots one, two, three for the three black candidates. The frontrunner will probably still need some more support from white-mostly likely CCA-voters...
...that the resulting council will be similar to the present one. That in turn bodes well for the future of City Manager James L. Sullivan. Though the two retiring councilors were part of the coalition which hired Sullivan, the manager seems to feel that he can gain the support of a majority of the new council, and he is a man sensitive to the way the political wind is blowing in the City. For the first time since 1963, then, the council elections may not presage the firing of a city manager. Considering the havoc the successive city manager fights...
...campaign, it was his order that city flags fly at half mast to mark Vietnam Moratorium Day. It was a beautiful thing to witness, but it only added to his alienation from civil servants and blue collar workers. Police cars and buses burned their headlights to show support for President Nixon. It is true such individuals as drove them were not likely to cast their lot with Lindsay in any case, but even for opponents of the war his action raised the specter of another mayor at another time marshalling a different set of personal opinions behind the decision...