Word: velluccis
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...poor, poor people are upset and mad and teed off about the high rate of taxes and the high rate of sewer fees," declared Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci last night--prompting a colleague to approach the press table and whisper, "Is there an election this year...
...almost election time, and the Cambridge City Council is back to one of its favorite sports. University-bashing. Vellucci, as always, is in the lead...
Calling both Universities--but especially Harvard--ugly names is an old tradition, far older than Vellucci's suggestion in 1956 that the city turn Harvard Yard into a bus station. For Councilors seeking the working-class vote--like Vellucci of East Cambridge and Thomas W. Danehy of North Cambridge--the dislike of town for gown is the Cantabrigian equivalent of log cabins and hard cider...
Past experience has proven Vellucci will turn any subject into a cause against the universities, which bear down in his imagination like the two weights of a barbell on the neck of the city...
...Things have been changing," declared Vellucci at last week's City Council meeting. "All I hear from Councilors and politicians in this city is that we must find new sources of revenue--but we mustn't touch Harvard or MIT...I assure you that they are doing research in those tax-exempt buildings to make money...