Word: ackermanns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fifty-four years later there are only two women holding that office --Connecticut's Ella Grasso and Washington's fireball, Dixie Lee Ray. A Cambridge woman hopes to join the lonely twosome this fall by challenging incumbent Gov. Michael S. Dukakis for the Massachusetts governorship. That woman is Barbara Ackermann...
...faces stiff competition in the September 19 Democratic primary from Dukakis (who is wowing crowds in his "Blizzard of '78" sweater) and from Ed King (former Massport director and All-American footballer). Operating on a shoestring budget (her sevenmember staff receives just $500 a week), Ackermann must compete with the media blitzes and black-tie fund-raisers of King and the "Duke." "Massachusetts voters are very sophisticated," says the former Cambridge mayor and veteran of five years on the Cambridge School Committee and ten on the Cambridge City Council. "Often, it's those who didn't go to Harvard...
...game was to be no closer, though as Yent drove around Fine to unsettle the beat. Ackermann then missed a pair of free throws, and Hooft followed with three consecutive miscues from the charity stripe, allowing the ol'Blues to once again up the lead to eight...
...Ackermann met Wednesday with the elderly residents of the Manning Apartments and received her first campaign donation--$49.90, which she proudly displayed in a styrofoam...
Lenny Gamache, Ackermann's press secretary, said the candidate had no speeches planned yet, but that she plans to visit local groups and city officials throughout the state...