Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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AMERICAN politics is a power game, we all know it from watching Nixon. But you don't have to go that high up or low down in the structure to see the mechanism at work. City government in Cambridge is a continuing struggle between the City Council, the City Manager...
The rent control law passed by the Council in September was supposed to have rolled back rents to March 1970 levels. However, nothing in government ever happens that fast. City Manager John Corcoran and City Solicitor Philip M. Cronin have continually delayed putting the law into effect. First Cronin, as...
Corcoran has been using his power of appointment to delay rent control. He has been considering three candidates for the post of rent control administrator for two months and made no appointment.
Corcoran appears before the City Council now and then as a tired man, hunched over the microphone just to say "We're doing the best we can" or "I'll have to consult the city solicitor and get a legal opinion on this." With his deliberate slow pace of dealing...
But last Monday he did so by quietly firing Joseph A. Spadafora, the man whom he had appointed only two weeks before to assist Cronin as Ex??? Director of rent control. ??? ???