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Vellucci's political career dates back to his 21st birthday, when he ran as an independent Democrat against a slate for the Democratic City Committee. He knocked an incumbent off the slate and won a seat, which entitled him to be a delegate to that year's Democratic State Convention. There followed a long gap in his political career, which reopened in 1950 with his election to the Cambridge School Committee. He served on the Committee four years and then ran for the City Council, where he has served for 16 years. The nine-man Council elects a mayor from...
...writing on a small slate he carries around his neck does Louis no good-when he returns home none of the other swans can read. He falls in love with Serena, a lovely young swan, who ignores...
...reflect on the example of the Albanian electorate. According to the Albanian news agency, exactly 100% of the country's voters turned out last week to elect representatives to the People's Assembly, local councils and the courts. Every single voter chose the Communist Party's slate of candidates. Actually, it was a cliff-hanger compared to the Soviet election in which Joseph Stalin, possibly with the help of some of Gogol's dead souls, is said to have collected 130% of the vote in his home district...
...visitor handed her an envelope. "Would you please see that the president gets this?" he asked. Then he stepped back and announced: "Here's a gift for all of you from the Aurora area." Across the gleaming black slate lobby floor sloshed the contents of his bucket: a bouillabaisse of river muck and the carcasses of fish, a rat and a bird. The Fox, mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel of pollution, had struck again. His note explained all. A long doggerel rewrite of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, it ended with the lines: "We have begged you for mercy...
...underground" programs superimposed on the official slate meant that we suffered perhaps 80-odd speakers where half that number might have better served. Probably we could have done without contributions made by the circulation manager for a Boston tabloid, the biologist who touted a miracle bug-killer (in which, it developed, he held some proprietary interest), the Time-Life poobah who saw no First Amendment dangers in newsmen being required to surrender their notes or tapes to Big Brother's agents in Washington, or the faculty-tie who severely lobbied in behalf of Foundations remaining untaxed despite those many abuses...