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With 15 positions at stake and 65 candidates on the ballot it would seem to be anybody's race. Cambridge politicians, though, are almost perfectly divisible into four groups: the reformers, the longtime ins, the perennial outs, and the hardy newcomers.
Of these classifications the ins are, in most instances, fairly sure of re-election; the reformers will elect some of their slate; and the perennials and the newcomers are generally doomed to oblivion, this year at least.
The ins in the 1957 battle are headed by Mayor Edward J. Sullivan, who proclaims himself as the voters' "Around-the-Clock-Servant," humane, sincere, trustworthy, faithful, aggressive, honest, and capable. Sullivan predicted that he will "top the ticket," and that his group of so-called "independents" will keep control...
If the Telemovie system proves a long-run success, Video plans to spread it across the U.S. to fatten its own chain of 112 movie houses and 63 drive-ins, broaden it to include live plays, sports and musical events.
In the 1930s, pull-out sofa beds cut into Murphy's markets. World War II housing regulations hurt them more by classifying the beds as furniture instead of structural built-ins, cutting them out of mortgage packages. Progress and Government rules folded Murphy bed sales. To recoup, Murphy concentrated...