Word: velluccis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vellucci keeps campaigning, confident that he has put the Globe story, the furor over his past, and even the fact of Antonelli's suspension, behind him. Shrewdly generating the confident image, he greets reporters with left hand extended--"bursitis, shaking too many hands with the other one" has claimed his right arm, he says. Predicting "a bigger vote than last time, for sure," he dismisses newspaper reports of his impending political death as greatly exaggerated. "The newspapers know nothing about politics. This is street politics, and they don't teach that at the School of Government at Harvard," he boasts...
...Vellucci might be wrong in his political predictions, but he is certainly right about one thing: the press has not been able to hurt him as badly as most people thought. Whatever the merits of the Globe report, he managed to neutralize its impact with a strategically timed resignation, letting columnists on both side of the issue keep his name in the spotlight with harmless but well-read arguments about innocence or guilt...
Milking the press for all it is worth; win or lose, that is a game Al Vellucci plays very well...
Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has scheduled a public hearing before the City Council for November 14 to consider citizens' arguments for down-zoning Harvard-owned property on Observatory Hill...
...Vellucci called the hearing in response to citizen demands made last week that the council consider zoning by "home-rule" in Cambridge...