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...group of giant Anchor Hocking Corp. (1981 sales: $953 million) has been flooded with calls for its various lines of vacuum seals for glass food jars since the Tylenol tragedy. "Customers have even come down to the plant to speed up their orders," notes Senior Vice President Vincent Naimoli. PCM Corp. of Roslyn Heights, N.Y. (1981 sales: $10 million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three...
...quit campaigning. It was his life. He talked to local clubs and groups, he shook more hands and remembered people's names. His comeback has been impressive; a recent poll ranked him as the second most popular Democrat in the state, following Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. Now, the PCM scandals and what Weld has made of it threaten to wipe away his monumental effort to ressurrect himself...
Weld keeps pounding away. He crisscrosses the state recounting the facts of the PCM case to voters and asking them to consider why Bellotti has shown such signs of hesitancy to investigate the case. Bellotti says that he cannot investigate the case of a former client, yet refuses to appoint a special prosecutor. In the meantime, the blue ribbon commission formed to investigate the affair crawls along at a snail's pace and the statute of limitations harbors more and more potential white-collar criminals...
Bellotti, despite the debits of the PCM-MBM affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
...conservative tenets of his political philosophy. He comes across as a workingman's candidate more than patrician Weld--although both are equally hypocritical in claiming allegiance to the common man. The question is how much damage Weld has done to Bellotti's future ambitions. Bellotti may win, but his PCM-MBM connections could hurt him in a race for the governorship--a position he sorely wants. As for Weld, he can't win, but he has time to lose...