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...poll, analysts say, for the first time raises the possibility that Finnegan--long considered a shoo-in for the final--may finish third and fail to make the runoff. The former School Committee chairman and WBZ-radio talk show host has been hurt because many voters feel his campaign lacks substance...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Picture Clears in Boston Mayor's Race | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

Certainly, the two best known Olympic hopefuls are hockey stars Mark Fusco '83 and brother Scott '85 who were picked by Coach Lou Vairo in lane for the preliminary team Mark, last year's Hobey Baker Award winner as college hockey's top player, is a shoo in to make the final roster of 20 players. Scott will learn on September 15 whether he'll help defend the nation's Olympic title or return to Cambridge for his junior year...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Shooting For Bigger Games | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...Goode netted an impressive 23% of it. If Goode, 44, is elected in November, it would put blacks in charge of four of the nation's six largest cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Detroit. But even cushioned by a 5-to-l Democratic superiority, Goode is no shoo-in. The G.O.P. is girding for a tough fight, hoping to take advantage of a fractured Democratic Party and regain city hall after 32 years out of power. "I've spoken to some of these people, and there's going to be a mass defection from the Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Big-City Black Mayor? | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...wild flower, as LaMicela explains with a poet's shy pride, might ride her bicycle alone down a country road some misty afternoon. She might glide round a bend, only to find the road blocked by a herd of cows. The cowherd, struck by her beauty, might shoo his beasts away, and she, touched by his courtesy, might hand him a flower from a bouquet she had gathered. Cut: and the noise you hear is millions of women stampeding to the drugstore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...teams who are going. Wisconsin and Minnesota, were shoo-ins for the tourney. They traded off the top two spots in the national rankings for much of the season. Minnesota won the WCHA regular season crown, but Wisconsin the two-game, total goals playoff final, 5-1 and 3-2 Understandably Wisconsin is the top Western seed and Minnesota is number...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Go West, or to Providence, Young Men | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

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