Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's a Ford in your future," ran the familiar ad. For retired Heavyweight Muhammad Ali, 37, Ford is in the past; it is a Toyota that beckons. Window-shopping in Beverly Hillsi Calif., Ali tried the driver's seat of a 1909 Ford Tour-About. Meanwhile, for Toyota, personal appearances and Ali plugs in Arabic are being planned for the champ in Saudi Arabia. The auto company hopes his well-known face and Muslim religion will persuade Saudis to go Toyota...
...protective wall and solidly blocked the punt--too solidly, it turned out. The ball rebounded all the way out of the Harvard end zone for a safety instead of stopping where Brown could have recovered for a TD. The half closed with the Crimson leading by a score more familiar to Fenway than football...
...corner in the North End and smiling from ear to ear. He's not too far away to be talking about Quincy Market and his downtown accomplishments with some lady who lives just off of Prince St. But, as always, the mayor is thinking about something else. White's familiar figure struts up the street and what's left of his now-white hair glows in the cold sunshine. If he's not already there, the mayor is fast approaching mid-life crisis. If he's not mayor of Boston again, there's not much else that Kevin White wants...
TOMORROW BOSTON voters will make a familiar choice. Kevin H. White has been a mayor for 12 years and he's asking for four more. And for the third time, State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty is challenging the incumbent. The central question is who possesses the skills and intelligence to lead the city in the 1980s...
Boston voters will pick a mayor tomorrow and the names on the ballot will look very familiar. Incumbent Kevin H. White is seeking a fourth term and State Senator Joseph F. Timilty is trying for the third time to unseat him. Timilty nearly beat White in the 1975 election following the height of the Boston busing crisis, Watergate, and a series of attacks on the ethics of the White administration. The outcome of tomorrow's contest hinges on Timilty as the alternative candidate and on the changing nature of the city's population...