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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural speech, DeGuglielmo challenged the Council minority to "make my administration an issue" in the 1967 elections. However, the DeGuglielmo administration has generally not been an open issue during this campaign, simply because the structure of Cambridge voting argues against any and all City-wide issues...
Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
Nonetheless, through the smoke of the individual campaigns, certain trends emerge. The position of the Council minority apears fairly secure. Both Crane and Mahoney (an M.I.T. professor) have power bases which are relatively wide for Cambridge. They gain a sizeable amount of "number ones" from Brattle Street. Support from scattered neighborhoods of middle-class Irish also comes their way. Crane in particular appears a sure bet; he has finished in the top two for the past four elections and holds the record for number one votes...
...clippings because of fumbling. The Quakers lost five fumbles against Princeton last week, as the host Tigers ripped open a 28-0 lead by the three-quarter mark. In a 28-27 loss to Bucknell a week before, the Quakers lost four fumbles. In addition, Creeden has missed wide-open receivers during those two games, and the receivers in turn have been dropping easy passes...
...British. Lloyd's Register of Shipping reported last week that as of Sept. 30, some 1,300,000 tons, representing 10% of world total, were under construction in British yards v. Japan's 4,200,000 tons, or 31.6%. While that is still a rather wide gap, Sir John Hunter, 55, head of the Swan Hunter Group of shipbuilders on the Tyne, says: "We are beginning to see some daylight...