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Some stockholders charge that Everett, 69, has turned "the track of lakes and flowers" into a second-class operation. The main challenger is R.D. Hubbard, a Texas glassmaking mogul and owner of tracks in Kansas and New Mexico. Hubbard launched a proxy battle last November to gain control of the company's board and install new management, complaining that the company has lost $27 million in the past three years. Everett supporters like Merv Griffin counter that she has brought many innovations to the track, including simulcasting of events...
...Hubbard hired private investigators who, he said, found evidence that Everett has misappropriated funds. According to one allegation, she supplied audiovisual gear at company expense to her friends Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Everett denies the charges. "They won't find a g.d. thing on me," she told the Wall Street Journal. Defending Everett's cause, Forsythe got into a shoving match at the track last month with an opposing director...
...Hubbard, in his own poll of stockholders, gathered support from 49.4%, just shy of the majority he needs to take over. As a result, he will have to wait for an official count that will take place at the company's annual meeting Feb. 18. Tallyho...
Precisely. Wynton's musicianship, already on a world-class technical level when he first hit New York, has continued to develop and mature. Though his early influences -- Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and pre-fusion Miles Davis -- are still discernible in his playing, he is increasingly forging his own sound. Since leaving Blakey to form his own band in 1981, he has released a total of 12 jazz albums, and he has enough material in the can to fill eight or 10 more. On the classical side, he has done five recordings, and is now working on a baroque album with...
...their postwar constitutions make it impossible for them to send military units outside their own regions. Even if that is true, their prolonged fumbling in reaching for wallets has produced anger on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona accused Bonn / of "contemptible tokenism," while Democratic Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky said Tokyo was behaving predictably: "If there's no profit in it for them, forget...