Word: dicara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting hard to be sure it's really election day if Lawrence S. DiCara '71 isn't on the ballot. DiCara's latest campaign is for Massachusetts secretary of state, and he said last week, "The secretary of state is not a jumping board to national politics, but I don't expect to be secretary of state all my life." But the office is the logical next step in DiCara's methodical rise to power. DiCara was elected to the Boston City Council immediately after leaving Harvard, and he won a landslide re-election campaign last fall. So when DiCara...
Still, it's something of a mystery how DiCara expects to knock off Republican incumbent John F.X. Davoren in November, let alone eliminate a strong field of Democratic contenders. But such mysteries are nothing new to DiCara. Nobody predicted that he would poll the third highest vote total in the city council elections last election day--that is, nobody except DiCara. The ambitious councilor has a deceptive support that is unlike that of any other politician in Boston. His political strength is a lucid memory and a quick recall of the names and faces of almost anyone he has ever...
Both councilmen are up for re-election on Tuesday when Boston holds its municipal elections. Other councilmen seeking re-election are Lawrence S. DiCara '62, Fred Langone, Albert D. O'Neill, Patrick McDonough and Christopher J. Ianella...
...DiCara said last night that he does not favor the referendum because he feels questions of morality legislation should not be applied solely to Boston...
...Brighton. He and his volunteers are making a major push to bring out a large vote in Allston and Brighton stressing the point that the area has not had a state senator in 15 years. In some ways Hogan's campaign in similar to the one run by Larry DiCara in Dorchester during last year's Boston City Council race...