Word: ward
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Ralph W. (Stody) Ward ran as an Independent for the Cambridge City Council in the last elections and lost. The day after the official count was completed, former City Manager John J. Curry '19 fired Ward from his post as Cambridge youth worker, a post Ward had held since its creation in 1959. Curry offered no explanation, and replaced Ward with a man untrained in youth work, in fact formerly employed by the City as a carpenter...
...City Council agreed to hear Ward's case at its April 11 meeting, although it cautioned him that legally it could do nothing to reinstate him. At the meeting Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci strongly implied that the Cambridge Civic Association, and CCA-supported Councillor Thomas Coates, had pressured Curry into Ward's dismissal. Vellucci claimed that the CCA and Coates were taking revenge on Ward for the threat he posed in the last election...
Coates immediately denied any ill will toward Ward. Councillor Bernard Goldberg turned around and accused Velucci of using Ward as a pawn, trying to create an issue for his own political advantage. Vellucci only repeated his charges all the more strongly...
Last week in Portsmouth, Va., a Negro dentist, James W. Holley III, 39, became the first non-white ever to win the Democratic nomination for the city council. His victory was swung by a Negro ward that gave him a lopsided 990 ballots v. 114 for two white rivals. Nonetheless, most Negroes were apparently voting for Holley not because he is a Negro but because they-like many whites-respect his long record of participation in community activities. The potential Negro vote may be greatly shrunk by political apathy, born of centuries of disenfranchisement and ignorance, and mirrored...
...caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic moving. The price it commanded...