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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, Democrats kept most of the mayors' jobs in big cities, but in many cases party dissidents or independents bucked the regular organization and won. In Pittsburgh, Interim Mayor Richard Caliguiri, a Democrat who ran as an independent with support from the ethnic wards, beat Democratic candidate Thomas Foerster, a more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall...
...came upon a man digging with his hands, pushing aside rubble and raising dust, his eyes scared. 'Somewhere under here are my two children,' he said softly. Those who had escaped by hiding in the caves where livestock are generally kept hunted for other survivors; when they heard a cry, they dug. A lady in black walked through the rubble carrying a mirror almost as tall as she and somehow still intact. Pausing to rest, she set it carefully on the ground for a moment. 'Now I've lost my husband,' she said...
...first was the loss through graduation of Jeff Campbell, last year's captain and top runner. His IC4A time of 24:28 was the best Harvard course time ever run in New York's Van Cortlandt Park. The second was the injury that kept Tim Fitzsimmons, an all-Ivy sophomore last year, out of the running for the entire season, and the third was the decision of talented freshman Rock Moulton to take the year...
...breaks lead to frustration, which can easily turn into pessimism and gloom. Rafto, Mark Meyer and others insist that this was not the case, however. "We just never gave up-we kept trying to put it together. At the Princeton meet (the last dual meet of the season) we put in nine varisty runners and we all ran our hardest...
Logically enough, each member of the Medenica team got involved in motor racing through a childhood fascination with automobiles. "I was just always into cars," Medenica says. "At 12, I was into slot cars. When I got my license, I drove fast...it's a long continuum that just kept building." "It's basically the same for me as for Gordon, although I never thought of racing until my brother took me to a race at Watkins Glen, when I figured it was something I wanted to do," Herne says...