Word: vellucci
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Councillors Alfred E. Vellucci and Cornelia B. Wheeler voted present on the resolution. "I cannot vote for any resolution congratulating President Pusey," Vellucci said. "I don't think the police want to be congratulated. They don't like to see these things happen. The police got sick when they were ordered to go there because they knew what would happen...
...comes down to a question of when Harvard will get us," Vellucci continued. "For the last 25 years there has been a race between Harvard and M.I.T. to see who would get to Central Square first. Harvard has been going around this city with a bag of gold gobbling up land as fast as it could. Even M.I.T. in recent years has come to realize some responsibility to the City. But Harvard has just sat on its carcass and done nothing...
...Vellucci recalled that in 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 had endorsed the sit-in of mine workers led by John L. Lewis. He said that such a sit-in, despite its illegality, drew national attention to a critically wrong situation. "The fact is that now the whole world is watching Harvard. Dr. Pusey should have worked these things out a long time ago. How can Harvard men advise the rest of the world how to live when they can't even straighten our a little mess in their own back yard without calling on Cambridge police for help?" Vellucci said...
...M.I.T. corporation, and Livernash are both long-time members of the five-man Authority. They came under fire for their university connections and for the fact that neither lives in an area affected by urban renewal. "One represents Harvard and the other M.I.T.," said Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci...
Mahoney's polite came under attack from Vellucci who charged "He just wants to keep the guy from M.I.T. and give the axe to Harvard. The big bosses at M.I.T. told him 'vote for Lunn or we'll get rid of you.'" Mahoney is a professor at M.I.T...