Another takes the heat
His boyish good looks, cherubic smile and bouncy energy helped him win the Providence mayoralty in 1974 at the age of 33. By a mere 709 votes over a sorely split Democratic machine, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. became the first Republican mayor of the heavily industrial city in 34 years. But he soon had a problem that threatened to tarnish the good-guy image. A 1978 cover story in the now defunct New Times magazine reported that twelve years earlier, while a law student at Marquette University, Cianci had been accused...
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