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...ECKERD v.STONE...
...only real issue between the two Florida candidates is which one has the most energy. Democrat Richard Stone, 46, gathered no moss when he rolled through the state's 67 counties in a breathtaking 15 days. Republican Jack Eckerd, 61, is almost as fast. In the contest to replace G.O.P. Senator Edward Gurney, the member of the Senate Watergate Committee who is now under indictment for conspiracy, bribery and lying to a grand jury, Eckerd has a huge recognition edge. His is a familiar household name, since one of his 422 drugstores can be found in almost every town...
FLORIDA. The only issue in the state's race for the Republican nomination to the Senate was the economy, and the only question was which candidate could do the most about it. Given those facts, Republican voters chose a cigar-chomping, bald, self-made millionaire named Jack Eckerd, 61, who created a chain of 422 drugstores in the South. Eckerd came across as a solid businessman who might bring some horse sense to the fight against inflation. (Eckerd's opponent will be picked by a Democrat ic runoff next month...
...Eckerd's primary victory was a stunning setback to the promising career of his rival, dynamic, attractive Paula Hawkins, 47, who made her name as a consumer advocate. Ironically, Hawkins' greatest triumph turned out to be her undoing. In 1972 she became the first woman in Florida's history to be elected to state office when she won a spot on the three-member Public Service Commission. But when the board was unable to keep electricity rates from soaring more than 35% in two years, her reputation as the consumer's best friend was short-circuited...
...social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...