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...Vellucci weathered a tough political battle to emerge as Cambridge's new mayor last week. But for Vellucci there is no time to rest on newly won laurels. A string of social policy challenges await the council's senior member, who in recent years has controlled the crucial swing vote between four staunch conservative Independents and four equally committed members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...music coverage and aims for a more general readership. Record companies have cut back on corporate extravagances and are making a little money, mostly by kicking up prices. Punk is dead, New Wave is over, disco moved out when your older sister left home. The Clash can't swing a major hit single, so its albums don't get high on the charts; and does anyone know there's a great new record by a great new group called the Blasters? Is anyone listening? Does anyone care...
Saying he is excited about his impending career swing. Bertagna added, "now my only problem is who'll get tickets...
...record-breaking meeting was made possible by the unexpected absence of Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, the usual swing vote on the sharply divided body and a contender in the race for mayor...
Ford's employees seem likely to make some concessions to the company. Says Walt Humphrey, a transmission worker at Ford's Louisville assembly plant: "I'm willing to show the American people that we are ready to sacrifice. It might swing them back to American products." GM workers, however, appear to be taking a harder line. Says Pete Kelly, a wood-model maker at the GM tech center in Warren, Mich., and a leader of dissident U.A.W. members: "If we give concessions now, they will automate that much faster and there will be more workers...