Word: vellucci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walter J. Sullivan, the perennial front-runner in Cambridge City Council elections, has run away from the field of 26 candidates, polling some 1400 votes more than his closet opponent, incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci...
...Vellucci and incumbent Thomas W. Danehy ran second and third with totals of 2234 and 2195 votes respectively. Newcomer Robert P. Moncreiff finished a strong fourth with 2104 votes...
...moment approached which would bring the climax of the evening. There was no feverish political air to the room but there was a quiet anticipation of the ultimate purpose of the evening, a speech by Vellucci. After a brief plea for support by a candidate for the school committee. Vellucci stood...
There it was. Everything we'd heard from the steps of Mem Church and University Hall. Everything that PL has been ranting about ad nauseam. Al Vellucci was telling the people. But he wasn't telling them, he wasn't educating them, they knew it all. He was saying it for them. He was putting all their fears and anxieties into words. He is their man because he is the political expression of these people. He fights their battles for them, and all these people were cheering Al on as he denounced their common enemy...
...Vellucci drove us back to the Square, later that night, we asked him if he realized that the radicals were attacking Harvard and M.I.T. for many of the same reasons that he was, and asked why he didn't try to enlist their support...