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...fact that a group of students and political novices could defeat some of Cambridge's more experienced politicians is not as impressive, however, as the manner in which they did it. Without political allegiances, City Council backing, or any ties whatsoever, the students gathered a slate that was ideally balanced with cross-ideological and multi-generational strands. It contained veterans and anti-war liberals, students and older adults, housewives and city workers, Irish and more Irish. "Tell me now, just what could we do against that collection?" a member of the losing slate said after the votes had been tallied...
Daniel J. Brennan Jr., son of the late Cambridge police chief, organized and headed the winning slate. He has worked in City Hall and knew just what kind of tactics would win in this part of Cambridge. A sophomore at Boston University, Brennan got three of his former Little League teammates to join him on the ballot: Anthony McI. Glavin '68, Roger O'Sullivan, a junior at Boston State, and Brendon Synnott, a senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge...
...Brennan slate's one-month, low-keyed campaign involved phone calling, neighborhood stumping, and electioneering at the poll booths. A printed disc with the names of the slate's members and the number of the appropriate polling-machine lever was its only campaign literature. The majority of voters at the polls seemed generally pleased to see college students and housewives at the polls. Their pleasant appearance put the crusty-looking opponents on the defensive. "Members of the incumbent slate there seemed like caricatures," a young housewife who had come to vote for McCarthy commented. "They all looked alike with those...
...began four years ago when insurgents won control of Wards 4, 6, 7, and 8 (Cambridge has 11 wards). This year the major changes occurred in Wards 1, 5, 9, 10, and 11. In Ward 1, Democratic City Committee Chairman Edward Stewart Jr. topped the balloting, but an opposing slate gained majority control of the Ward Committee. An insurgent group swamped the incumbents in Ward 5. The victors included James Washington Jr., a semi-professional basketball player and social worker who spoke for the City's black community before the city Council last Thursday and last night. Among the casualties...
...case of Ward 9, the overwhelming victory of the student slate could encourage people to run against Hickey. The Committee makeup has worried Hickey enough to make him abortively attempt to win the chairmanship for himself, even though he finished behind all 12 opponents...