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...other business, the council passed motions congratulating Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci on his 74th birthday. The order described Vellucci as "a person who proves that the dreams of yesterday are the realities of today...
...crowd in the council chambers rose to sing "Happy Birthday" to Vellucci, as city employees brought in a cake and a large bouquet of flowers and balloons...
...Cambridge City Council--including two as mayor--should qualify Barbara Ackermann as an expert in the quirks of city government, one gets the sense that she never really feels confident about her abilities. Rules of politics and government that are second nature to a native like Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, now the mayor, are an unfolding mystery to a relative newcomer like Ackermann...
...whole, "You the Mayor?" works well. It provides splendid portraits of city officials--particularly the giant Ed Crane and the often preposterous Al Vellucci, the independent Independent. It explains clearly and eloquently the problems of being an elected official in a city like Cambridge, where councillors have "accountability without authority...
Recognizing that the vast expanse of tax-free buildings the University was using for educational purposes could be put to far more profitable uses, Vellucci proposed a variety of "creative" measures to combat Harvard. Among the less well-received proposals of 1968 was Vellucci's plan to bulldoze Harvard Yard to make way for a bus depot...