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...movie ends in the zoo. Elgin sits facing a rather forlorn-looking camel while snowflakes fall around them both. The old zookeeper walks by and Elgin asks him if it snows in the camel's natural habitat. "No," the zookeeper says, "But don't worry about it. He'll get used to it. He'll adapt...
...zoo atmoshphere in the council chambers subsided after that, at least on the city manager issue. Sullivan's former assistant city manager, John H. Corcoran, took his old boss's post. But Corcoran was a relatively weak manager, and by 1974 the city faced many unsolved problems: corruption the housing authority, excessive demands for wages from municipal unions, stagnation of Kendall Square development efforts and confusion in the city's federal aid programs. The council decided that Cambridge needed a strong manager in fact as well as in charter, and in 1974, after elections had brought another shift...
School Committee elections never generate much excitement, a strange contrast to the committee's meetings--where accusations fly in an atmosphere that has been described by members as "a nice little circus" and "a crazy zoo." Members generally divide into two warring factions, the liberals against the independents and the mayor, who serves ex-officio as a seventh member, often deciding the outcome. Politics get in the way of decision-making, as both sides accuse the others of opposing an idea merely because their side did not think of it first...
...start laughing yet because the funny comedy gags are yet to come. Speaking of cross country, the men will be dueling Dartmouth at 4 p.m. Friday at Franklin Park, which is, as most of you remember from last week, next to the zoo. A half hour before the men run, the women are going to run at the same place...
Lance suggested more seriously that his own experience in Washington should not frighten other businessmen from serving in the governmental zoo, even if a meat-market kind of inspection is required. But he warned against the tendency of Government and business to act as adversaries. More businessmen in Government service, he suggested, might reduce the friction. Argued Lance: "There are things that only business can do, and things that only Government can do. Government must be open and responsive and willing to hear what you have...