Word: timing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last night, City Manager James L. Sullivan for the second time gave up an attempt to fill two vacancies on the agency, the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). City Councillors had objected that neither set of nominees gave enough representation to those most affected by urban renewal-minority groups and residents of urban renewal areas...
...City Manager said he would ask a citizens' committee to meet with interested groups in order to set up guidelines for membership on the CRA. It was an appropriate time to take the action. Sullivan said, since CRA chairman Paul R. Corcoran had last week resigned for personal reasons...
...politician, he went on to explain, the issue was dangerous. If they voted to end the war, they would be popular for a while. But within a short time the reaction to losing the war would undermine their initial victory, and probably destroy them...
...legislative aide sat me down and told me how his Congressman had supported the October Moratorium. He then told me that thirty days was not enough time for the President to change his views, and thus he could not support this November action. When I explained to him that Congressmen themselves could do something about the war, he laughed in my face. I didn't think it was funny...
...Culver attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is now a Congressman from Iowa, one of two Democrats elected from the seven Congressional Districts in Iowa. When I went to his office his legislative assistant told me something that I didn't think was very brilliant at the time. But in looking back over the situation in Congress it seems more brilliant than I first thought. She said that privately John Culver thought people in Congress were playing politics with...