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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAVEN, Ct.--As jubilant Harvard fans ripped the uprights off the Yale bowl goalpost, and ecstatic Crimson football team completed a devastating upset, trampling previously unbeaten Yale, 22-7, for the first Crimson win over the Elis since...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: HARVARD BLASTS YALE | 11/17/1979 | See Source »

Taking only a short time to get better acquainted with his new sport, Casto starred as a running back in the local Pop Warner I eague. Unfortunately a move to Mobile Ala. near the beginning of his first year of high school gave him too late a start to impress the coaches at Mobile's W.P. Davidson High. Casto did his share of ben-chwarming...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: John Casto | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

...philosophy towards the way I wanted to spend my four years at Harvard was to put people and relationships first, learning as much outside the classroom as in," Casto says. "If I made good grades and had a good time doing it, fine. Otherwise, no matter how good, the grades would be worthless...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: John Casto | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

...first option is to take the conservatives' traditional approach, building up personal coalitions relying on personality and a few wellknown positions as well as on the backing of the ever-powerful CCA. No liberal council candidate has ever run as well as David Sullivan, who appealed in large part to the new voters--students and tenants in particular. Sullivan waged a traditional campaign--pressing the flesh, ringing the doorbells--and he built up a large network of volunteers independent of the CCA. The trend is obvious down the line. Francis Duehay'55, who also ran a high-budget, high-profile...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Wouldn't It Be Nice? | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

...school committee seats and four of nine city council slots. The CCA vote percentage was much higher than usual. David Sullivan, the CCA's rising star, finished far better than any liberal candidate in history, topping the total necessary for election by more than 200 votes on the first count--an unheard-of feat. A huge new liberal constituency--student voters--turned out for the first time, and about 800 new pro-rent control tenants went to the polls. There was a marked liberal-slate loyalty among the city's voters; if they voted for one liberal on Cambridge...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Wouldn't It Be Nice? | 11/16/1979 | See Source »

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