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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...
...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 has 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 Harvard student who worked full time during the summer, his area leaders, his poll-workers, his family and neighbors...
DiCara was the only pro on his team. The rest were enthusiastic amateurs, and even campaign manager Guenther had to be initiated into the arcana of Boston politics. But the volunteers had done well by him, and as the returns trickled in to demonstrate that he had not calculated wrong, DiCara became more and more pleased...
...Harvard thing has been a plus straight down the line for us," Guenther explained. "Everyone says, 'Oh, yeah he's the well-educated candidate.'" DiCara can pull it off because no one would ever think of him as a candidate from Harvard. The voters of Boston can recognize him on sight as one of them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tired for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association...
Campaign Manager William H. Guenther '72, resplendent in his new; shorter haircut, beamed as he looked around at the large turnout and watched his candidate move...