Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Automobile traffic from the complex would put too much pressure on streets in the Harvard Square area...
Despite the outward emnity between the Council and Rudolph, he actually performs a valuable service for them--taking the heat of citizen complaints. Some years ago--before Rudolph's time--the Council had direct control over traffic problems. "Sometimes they loved it. They were close to the people. They'd spend hours arguing over where to put a traffic light," one longtime Council observer recalls. But the votes gained from citizens who had a new traffic light near their home were balanced off against the votes lost when somebody didn't get the light he wanted. That, and the growing...
...RUDOLPH'S weekly beatings from the Council are mostly show. They give the councillors a little space in the Cambridge edition of the Record-American. Constituents rest assured that their representatives are looking out for their best interests in the traffic department. It's pretty cozy, so comfortable in fact that a Vellucci motion to put traffic problems directly under the control of the City Council and the City Manager has lain on the table for over a month. Someday, the Council and the Manager may agree to fire Rudolph; but, even if they do, another man will probably fill...
Right now, firing Rudolph doesn't appear to be in the cards. His sessions with the Council even appear to be getting a little shorter of late. But angry citizens caught in the waves of Cambridge traffic still call City councillors to complain, so Robert E. Rudolph will still spend a lot of time behind that big table in the Council chambers...
Along the third base line traffic was light to moderate around the McCarthy headquarters. Further up the line draft information was being dispensed and Resistance buttons sold indescriminately. Peace Pets were also on display: a kitty-litter of (predictably) kittens, a dozen dogs, one waterlogged turtle, two gross of goldfish, and a dove were up for grabs...