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...Hart more than 37% of their votes vs. not quite 28% for Mondale. Moreover, Hart swept nearly every category of voter; one exit poll found that only those aged 60 or over delivered the expected margins for Mondale. In the judgment of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a Mondale backer, Hart has pulled off "probably the biggest upset in Democratic politics since [Eugene] McCarthy went up against Lyndon Johnson in New Hampshire in 1968." Says puzzled Pollster Claibourne Darden, whose soundings failed to gauge the extent of the Hart surge in New Hampshire: "It's just the damnedest thing...
...CMAC is a way to bring the races together, so that they can enjoy and appreciate each other's culture," says City Councilor Saundra Graham, a staunch backer of the center. Adds the center's director, David Kronberg: "We're presenting different forms of culture and we're bringing different racial and ethnic groups together...
Androbot, a San Jose, Calif., company, planned to go public in June largely on the reputation of its chief backer, Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, and some 4-ft-high rolling robots exhibited at trade shows. Even though the company was less than 18 months old and had lost money on each of the 400 robots it had sold, Merrill Lynch valued the initial public offering at $73 million. Eventually the company and its bankers decided to postpone the issue...
Married, with five children, Hambrecht lives in an Edwardian-style home in San Francisco's opulent Pacific Heights district. In recent years he has begun diverting some of his attention, and money, to Democratic politics. A major backer of Presidential Candidate Alan Cranston of California, Hambrecht explains that in politics, as in business, he has "a natural affinity for the underdog...
...quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory ranks came broadsides ripping her economic policy, her lack of compassion, her foreign dealings. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, long an ardent backer, echoed the feelings of many when he declared: "She has run out of puff...