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Most of the teams the Crimson face are at least half-way through their schedules. Eckerd College, the April 4 opponent, is perennially a strong team. It is nearly as touch as last year when it posted a record of 23-8, including a victory over Florida Southern, which won the NCAA college division baseball title...
...oust Cramer from his power perch in the state party, will not have the time or the inclination to resume the feud. The flamboyant Kirk will be fully occupied in trying to win a second four-year term for himself. To Kirk's consternation, Millionaire Druggist Jack Eckerd, an ardent Nixon supporter whose ideological bent is fully as conservative as Kirk's, got enough votes to compel a runoff. In Florida, incumbents who fail to win renomination by getting the necessary 50% of the initial primary vote usually lose the second round. Kirk, Florida's first Republican...
Recognition Factor. Multimillionaire Florida Businessman Jack M. Eckerd spent $1,000,000, a third of it on TV and radio, to reach a runoff election for the Republican gubernatorial nomination; Nelson Rockefeller will spend either $1,500,000 or $2,500,000-depending on whether one accepts his figures or his opponent's-to stay in Albany. Norton Simon spent $1,300,000 in a quixotic attempt to become the Republican candidate for United States Senator from California. Howard Metzenbaum found out how much it costs to take a Senate nomination away from former Astronaut John Glenn: nearly...
...Eckerd, who estimates his wealth at "roughly $50 million," believes that people in his income bracket should be more heavily taxed. To help share his own fortune, he has formed a foundation that operates an 880-acre camp for emotionally disturbed boys. "I wanted to invest in people rather than buildings," he explains. To lighten the burden for retired persons on fixed incomes, Eckerd set up a nonprofit Senior Citizen Club; its members qualify for discounts at his drugstores. For his cherished employees, he is working out the details of a more unusual plan. Under it, Eckerd would place...
...Another Eckerd Drug chain in Delaware is still run independently by relatives...