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...slate, however, is far from perfect. Five of the nine endorsees hold public jobs, and they have not given any indication that they will resign if elected to the City Council. Three are state representatives who will not be through at the State House for at least a year. The other two are in state-appointed jobs, with presumably indefinite tenure. It is possible that these five, if elected today, will have to neglect at least one of the tasks given them by the voters, if not both...
...even come near to collapsing. This year it has been able to put up an exceptionally strong slate. Its programs for 1951, although not so extensive nor so ambitious as those in the past, are good. They include adoption of a long-range capital improvement program, increase in off-street parking, better housing facilities, improvement and enlargement of library and recreational facilities, and extension of street paving...
While these two groups are both throwing all their efforts behind the non-partisan Cambridge Civic Association's slate of candidates, the Liberal Union is ignoring Cambridge and concentrating on the Boston election...
...first crack of a 21-gun salute greeted the princess when she appeared in the doorway. She wore a slate-blue dress, matching velvet hat, mink jacket and black laced, high-heeled shoes (the first of many expected fashion hints). Followed by Prince Philip, in a Royal Navy lieutenant commander's uniform, she walked down the steep steps to be greeted by Viscount Alexander and Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent. Smiling, wholly composed, Elizabeth quickly reviewed an R.C.A.F. honor guard, then with her husband boarded a black Chrysler convertible which swung slowly past the cheering crowd to a special...
Last week Boston voters went to the polls in a nonpartisan preliminary election to nominate 18 candidates for nine seats on the City Council, and ten for five places on the School Committee. Results: all of the New Boston candidates, a complete slate for the Council and the School Committee, were nominated. The committee's candidates won five of the top six places in the school race, five of the top nine in the council contest...