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...City's powerful political families. At best the Sullivans have, over the years, maintained an uneasy relationship with the University whose Houses now stand where their families grew up in the early part of the century. Sullivan, who has said little about the firing of DeGuglielmo, has made clear his preference for a native-born City Manager...
...like nine Indian chiefs from nine separate tribes." The only informal parties are the "goo-goo" CCA, and the "independents" who like to describe themselves as representing "the little people." Even these lines have been blurred in recent years, as they were in the hiring and firing of DeGuglielmo...
...result of this diversity of background, the Council, which under Cambridge's Plan E. charter is supposed to set policy for the City, usually doesn't even do that. The direction of the City's government is set either by the manager himself, as it was in the DeGuglielmo regime, or by one councillor with the ear of the manager--a role which Crane fulfilled skillfully during the Curry administration. At present, Crane appears to be developing the same sort of close working relationship with Dunphy. An arrangement like this probably necessary if the City...
...effects of last January's change in administration are now becoming apparent. The image which DeGuglielmo tried to build for his administration was summed up in the 1966 annual report. "Cambridge is on the move again," he wrote. During the week before election day, the City Manager put up displays in City Hall of City building projects (the new hospital, schools, etc.) Many of the projects had been planned under the Curry administration, but DeGuglielmo claimed them as his own, reasoning that Curry had not moved quickly enough on them...
Since January, the tax rate has been a big topic in the Council chambers. During Curry's last four years in office, it remained stable at about $72 per $1000 assessed valuation, and was once even slightly reduced. By DeGuglielmo's second year in office, it stood at $82.50. During the last election campaign, advertisements of Crane and Danehy supporters in particular hit the rising taxes, and promised a return to the stability of the Curry years. The tax rate became one of the few City-wide issues in Cambridge political annals, and probably contributed to the defeat...