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...younger Michaud explained that the bus line has had previous trouble with drivers over demonstration assignments. "Our steward is a local president or past president of the VFW and we almost had a strike over the last group we took to Washington," he said...
...clubbed by a policeman, I was not around for University Hall last April, I was not teargases at the Justice Department in Washington. Yet as I walked toward the Cambridge Police Station- an odd-shaped, four-story building on Western Avenue that doubles as head-quarters for the Cambridge VFW and American Legion- I felt an inexplicable, and totally unfounded, anxiety. The closer I got to the station, the more convinced I became that I didn't really want to talk to the chief in the first place. Surely he didn't want to talk to me. Whatever the reason...
...headed down the street to a VFW post which was to be our first stop. Suddenly Vellucci started backing the car up. There was a site he'd forgotten to show us. An old factory building, deserted, stood on the site where M.I.T. will erect a 250-unit project for old people. Vellucci was strangely enthusiastic about it. He dwelled on M.I.T.'s good faith, their genuine concern for the plight of Cambridge...
...could get on the VFW post, where the people were waiting for Vellucci. We entered the small room, post awards and citations on the front wall, a bar in the corner, Fred MacMurray on the tube across the room. On a table were cold cuts, cheese, rolls, potato salad and a giant cake with written on it. Vellucci insisted we take his picture beside it. For the rest of the evening he was conscious of our cameras, and whenever we focused on him he sensed it and assumed an appropriate pose...
...Cambridge. While the "working people of Cambridge" have little love for the effects of Harvard and M.I.T. on City housing, they probably have even less affection for the colleges' radicals East and North Cambridge, the strongholds of the "working people" are also the sections of the City where VFW and American Legion Officer--objects of ridicule within the University community--are among the chief neighborhood leaders. The Cambridge-Somerville edition of the Record American--not the radical newspapers--is likely to be the favorite source of news in the neighborhoods...