Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard Square- Justine, adapted from Lawrence Durcll's "Alexandria Quartet"; and Hard Contract...
...summoned before a grand jury to answer questions about his ties to the Mob. Federal investigators wanted to know whether Addonizio knew Mafia Capo Ruggiero ("Richie the Boot") Boiardo or his son Anthony ("Tony Boy"). They also wondered whether he had discussed with members of the city council a contract awarded to the Valentine Electric Co., for which the younger Boiardo is a salesman. Claiming the protection of the Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendments, Addonizio refused to answer every question put to him-including whether he was mayor and when he was elected...
With surprising unanimity, sociologists and political scientists agree that the spirit of dissent that animated and fractured the '60s is unlikely to be contained during most of the '70s. Quite the contrary; it is more likely to expand than contract. In the U.S., blacks will probably be joined by other ethnic groups-Chicanos, Indians, Chinese Americans-in seeking equality and identity. High schools, perhaps even more than colleges, will be torn by unrest. New minorities will make themselves heard: women, old people, even homosexuals. "Gay Power," "Senior Power" and "Woman Power" may not be jokes but battle cries...
...rejected contract will be returned to the council, which will negotiate the disputed points with Harvard, Donald Berry, a member of the council, said yesterday. Berry said that he did not feel the dispute would delay formal ratification of the other contracts, which is scheduled for Monday...
Edward J. Powers, Harvard labor relations manager, said yesterday that the laborers had not informed him of the rejection of the contract. He declined to comment on the dispute until he received the union's formal ratification...