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RAISING tax rates is not the only means of increasing locally raised revenue. One could also increase the tax base, holding rates constant (or even lowering them). The most important local tax is that on property, and the Mayor might also increase the property tax base for more revenue...
John G. Flym, attorney for the NAC, will contest the validity of the restraining order at 10 a.m. today in the Superior Court. He will base his arguments, he said last night, on the vague terms in which the defendants are named and on Johnson's alleged failure to prove that the order is necessary to prevent irreparable harm and is the only legal remedy available-prerequisites for a restraining order...
...must retain the flexibility to base each withdrawal decision on the situation as it is at that time rather than on estimates that are no longer valid." he said...
Incumbent Thomas W. Danchy (Ind.) may also sweep into office on the surplus of Sullivan (a relative), if he hasn't already garnered enough "number ones" to win from his own North Cambridge base. Thomas H. D. Mahoney (CCA) should also win re-election with his "number ones" from the same base as Crane and a scattering of elderly votes from throughout the City...
...election. The old Goldberg vote, on the other hand, will probably scatter; some may go to James W. Caragianes (Ind.) who, like Goldberg, draws a lot of support in Mid-Cambridge; others will flow towards School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton (Ind.) who, with this new support and an old base of votes from his School Committee races, may make it onto the council...