Word: welling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sensing that rent control, recently scrapped next door in Somerville, was in trouble, and motivated by the well-financed campaigns of Sullivan and Francis Duehay '56, tenants, especially in mid-Cambridge, flocked to the polls. "David Sullivan pulled 700 brand-new votes out of the apartment buildings," School Committee member Glenn Koocher '71 said last week...
...pull in votes before students could forget about city politics. The Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC) endorsed David Sullivan, who in turn toured most dorms here in search of voters. Some of the students Sullivan met were informed, a few well enough to argue the Ec 10 line against rent control. Some were amazed to learn that they could even vote--like the Mather House resident who insisted he wasn't on the list. "I registered as a freshman, but not since," he said, skeptical until Sullivan explained that voter registration...
Kevin Crane '73, heir to the Edward Crane '37 political legend, ran just well enough across the city to insure his return to the council. He may not be building a constituency, but there are just enough voters in the city who recognize his name...
Like Crane, Leonard Russell, who has run for council seven times (twice successfully) had just enough friends. It isn't his moderate stand on the issues that wins Russell most of his support. Instead, voters chose him because he's friendly, well-kown, and has lots of connections when it comes to finding city jobs for his backers...
...trend that invites such inquiries has been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...