Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role in Princeton's victory at the annual Big Three meet where she broke the Franklin Park course record. Penn State fans will now remember Jennings for her upset win over their top runner, Kathy Mills, in yesterday's meet. Mills, who has won the Eastern Championship for the past three years, crossed the finish line at 17:11 for second place, and a time that also bettered the old course record...
This is not the first time, of course, that Joe Timilty has made that wish. Back in 1971, when he didn't even make it past the preliminaries. Timilty already had his heart set on City Hall. He made that wish again in 1975, when he got past the preliminaries but was narrowly defeated by Kevin H. White. And this fall, after White thrashed him in the preliminary by 14 per cent, Timilty once again made that wish...
...independent challengers, David P. Kennedy is making "competence" the theme of his campaign, but fails to back up his concern with concrete programs. James F. Fitzgerald, who has served off and on the committee for the past thirty years, favors promotion from within and return to neighborhood schools over the racial balance plan. Nicholas R. Ragno turns every issue into one of "saving the taxpayer's money," and Robert A. Carroll has declined to talk to reporters...
...office have encouraged a growing confidence in the future of the city. The mayor has attracted large sums of federal money to Boston, which is in good, financial shape. Although White's recent failure to adequately address the issue of racism does not speak well for him, his past success in leading Boston through the worst of racial times is commendable. White runs Boston like a Russian noble ruling his estate--demanding service and giving favors in return. But, as other major American cities have floundered, his machine brand of politics seems to have kept Boston on its feet...
Others, including many who have held Cambridge season tickets all their lives, cheer on the Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT) and the Cambridge Property Owners Association (CPOA) teams--groups that boomed in the past but seem, Oakland Athletics style, to be losing a little bit of their clout...