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...Jewish vote, the city's biggest single ethnic bloc, was crucial to his cause. Four years ago, the traditionally Democratic Jews helped elect Lindsay. Now many of them were still enraged over Lindsay's dispute last year with the predominantly Jewish teachers' union.* That acid conflict also lent credence to the allegation that he cared nothing for Marchi's "forgotten New Yorker" and Procaccino's "average...
Harvard YPSL voted not to take part in the Washington protest at a meeting on November 5. At the same meeting, the group affirmed its support for immediate withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Shortly before the Harvard vote, national YPSL leaders had advised members not to go to Washington...
...Monday's City Council meeting, Alfred E. Vellucci announced that he would be a candidate for mayor. "I've served on this council for 14 years... and each time my vote is climbing," he said. The East Cambridge councillor noted that he had served for several terms as the City's vice-mayor, and commented, "I've always been the bridesmaid, but never the bride...
...city council will elect one of its number as mayor when it takes office next January. The post is largely honorific, but the mayor does chair the School Committee, and cast a vote there. When Vellucci announced his candidacy, he said, "Never in the two years as may or would I ever indulge in any politics as far as the school children are concerned...
Even if Crane could not get all five CCA votes for mayor, some councillors felt he might be able to pick up Vellucci's vote for the post, as he has in the past. Vellucci fueled this speculation Monday when he said he could vote for any city councillor, even one endorsed...