Word: dicara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DiCara will run as an urban-populist. His issues will be housing, public transportation, and the restructuring of city government: DiCara will try to contract himself with present members of the Council, whom he considers unresponsive. "The City Council is an office a man should aspire to, not retire to," DiCara loves...
...DiCara also loves to think of himself when he repeats Murray Kempton's description of New York Mayor John V. Lindsay: "He's fresh, and everyone else is tired." Guenther calls his candidate the "first young, vibrant Italian to come along in quite a while," DiCara will attempt to disassociate himself from the established city politicians, who he feels have little freedom of movement. "I have no ties," DiCara emphasized. "My hands are as clean as the day is long." This is the DiCara rhetoric...
...added obstacle right now-a polop on his vocal cords. DiCara strained his voice a few months ago and can no longer project the voice as he did in the old days. He will have an operation within a month, but then won't be able to talk for a week. "I fear I'll have to leave the Boston area," DiCara reflected...
Guenther is only one of the Harvard persons in the campaign hierarchy. Arrold Waters '71 is the head fund raiser, while Alan Gerlach '71 is chief statistician. "Gerlach's one of the few persons I wouldn't challenge to a political nonsense contest," DiCara said Monday, extending a rare compliment. Chip Moore '72 will also have a big role this summer. Cindy Johnston, who will do a poll for DiCara, is a Wellesley student. But DiCara claims to have less aristocratic types working at the important grassroots level...
...uniqueness of the enterprise has caught the attention of one well-known Boston publisher, which so far has responded favorably to DiCara's suggestion that he write a book about it all. Every night he talks into his tape recorder about what he did that day. He smiled while playing back parts of it last weekend in his room. Above him on the wall was a painting of John and Robert Kennedy. In two places were "Kennedy in '72" stickers, even though DiCara guarantees that Teddy won't run. On the bureau, another picture of John Kenn?dy, flanked...