Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village; it was not looted during the interminable wars that rolled back and forth across the lowlands from the 16th century to the 20th century, and it was spared the fury of Protestant iconoclasm. The result is the finest intact collection of religious Flemish carving from the 12th to the 16th centuries that can be found anywhere...
Harvard's Tom New took 11th place in 25:08. Sophomore Fred Linsk rounded out the Crimson scoring, winning 12th place...
...nodded knowingly (not to mention sadly but wisely) while reading your October 12th editorial about student housing at Harvard. For almost 1 1/2 years I have been trying to cope with the role most House Secretaries have been hired to play in the lives of undergraduates, and so it is good to hear of an opinion that doesn't reflect a widespread paranoia among students concerning House Secretaries' plots to ruin their lives...
Larry DiCara, Harvard '71, guessed exactly where he would finish in last, week's City Council primary before returns had come in from a fifth of the wards. While his Campaign manager, Bill Guenther '72, scribbled results on tallysheets. DiCara told a well-wisher that he would finish between 12th and 15th, safely above the cutoff point of 18th. "It all depends on the black community," he added thoughtfully...
DiCara did well in all parts of Boston. What put him over, however, was a strong showing in Dorchester, his home grounds, and a sixth-place finish among the Italians of East Boston. He finished 12th overall, with 24,151 votes--about half the number which the number-one votegetter pulled in. And what had delivered those votes was not money--he spent only about $6000 on the primary campaign--or publicity--the mayoralty election had over-shadowed the Council race, and DiCara, like most of the other new candidates, had received little notice from the Boston papers...