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Vellucci was beaten in his own backyard, Ward 2, by both Lombardi and Toomey, offsetting the Councillor's solid showing in Ward 1. Lombardi swept Ward 1 with 1448 votes, followed by Vellucci with 1109 and Toomey with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks, Linsky and Kerry Win in Primary Races | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

Sameness was not an enemy in convention hall. Gilbert Carmichael, who sells Volkswagens in Meridian, Miss., bakes a potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The System Is Good1 | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...Bronx man, John Anthony Astuto, 20 Frenchmen and an Austrian national; a number of them are still at large. For his role in the case, Cirillo was sentenced in May to 25 years in prison. After his conviction, federal agents dug up $1,078,000 in cash from his backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NARCOTICS: Search and Destroy--The War on Drugs | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept passing through the room during the next hour. They received their instructions, hid pistols under their belts at the small of their backs, and disappeared again through a backyard littered with hijacked cars in various states of disrepair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The War of the Flea | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...Boylston St., on an alley off from the sidewalk, its stucco rooms are warm in winter and air conditioned in summer. Behind the building is an awninged porch for summer eating which looks out onto a green backyard. The back porch is also the back stoop of the kitchen, and as the kitchen gets hot in summer, the sound of Iberian invective leaping from the frying pan into the fire authenticates the atmosphere...

Author: By Robert D. Luskin and Tina Rathborne, S | Title: Edens of Hors d'Oeuvres and Ice Cream | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

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