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...when former 15th-round draft pick Willie Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Green Bay wing, he chose Eddie Robinson to introduce him at the ceremonies. Davis had a sense that his Packer coach, the late Vince Lombardi, was present too in Robinson. "They were both tough disciplinarians," he says, "with soft human sides. They made football a lesson of life. Maybe some of the problems in the game now-you know, drugs-are rooted in the fact that you don't hear coaches described that way much any more...
...event also featured speeches by two of the hottest items on the area GOP circuit: Frank L. McNamara '69 and state Rep. Leon Lombardi. McNamara is waging a heavily financed campaign against House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. in the 8th Congressional District. Lombardi is running for lieutenant governor...
...fights for the 29th Middlesex House seat, Peter A. Vellucci, a local insurance salesman, crushed 16-year incumbent Michael Lombardi, with 67 percent of the vote. In the Middlesex County District Attorney' contest, L. Scott Harshburger '64 unseated 23-year incumbent John J. Droney, taking nearly half the votes in a four-man race, And Sen. George Bachrach successfully defended the Middlesex and Suffolk seat he won two years ago, winning a clear majority against three challengers...
...addition, as Dukakis did statewide, the three put together highly efficient machinery. While neither Lombardi nor Droney ran very visible campaigns, Harshbarger and Vellucci poured hours into the district, shaking hands and winning endorsements. As a senator, Bachrach has scrupulously taken care of constituent relations, even holding weekly office hours in different parts of the district. Happy Green, Bachrach's campaign manager said, "His approach is to be up-front and accessible, even if you don't agree with...
...Lombardi-Vellucci feud, settled by only a few hundred votes in the 1980 election is described by many as a battle between the oldtime, neighborhood-centered politics of the incumbent and the more liberal progressive reform of the challenger...