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...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...
...Larry's first real election night party--the first time in a life of anticipation when it had been his name on the ballot, his career at stake, his friends and workers gathered to watch the numbers come trickling in. DiCara was having the time of his life--as he clearly had had during the entire campaign. Around him were the key people in his all-volunteer campaign staff: his sister, Jenny DiCara. Guenther, his campaign manager, crouched over the phone barking figures and winking at faces in the crowd with some of Larry's own elan. Chip Moore, another...
...atmosphere was somewhere between the Democratic National Committee and the American Legion Boys' State. The crowd was young, almost all high school and college students. But the atmosphere owed more to Honey Fitz and James Michael Curley than to Gene McCarthy and the Peace and Freedom Party: Larry DiCara is not the new politics. He is a new face who has learned to practice the old politics very, very well...
...each of the volunteers who have made this possible DiCara has a smile and a personal greeting. "Sammy," he said to one newcomer, an old classmate from Boston Latin School. "How about this?" He winked at the crowd. "All the guys we've been looking for all summer show up for the free beer." The crowd laughed and Sammy smiled sheepissly. "Hi, I'm Larry DiCara," he said, extending his hand to another. "I don't believe I know your name...