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...saying that Steinberg's battle plan looks like so much huffing and puffing. Though he has said he may buy nearly 50% of Disney stock, Steinberg's search for other investors to go in with him has so far been fruitless. Also, his fight to unseat Disney's board of directors looks doomed...
From nowhere, though it might have been the flies, the word fire was, with a howl, repeated. The house lights came swiftly up. Enderby now saw, very rawly revealed, real seated people ready to unseat themselves, a lot of them, uneasily looking for the source of the cry or the source of the referent of the cry. Fire. 'Stay where you are, damn it,' Enderby yelled, as people began to panic their way into the aisles ... the beginning of a dangerous pushing out ... 'Blast it. Back, you stupid buggers.' And, to the gawping orchestra, 'Play...
With equal conviction, many of Hart's supporters look beyond the primary season and hardheadedly view him as the Democrat most likely to unseat Ronald Reagan in November. At .the Democratic caucus in Cumberland, Me., for example, some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart...
Democrats would particularly like to unseat prominent Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Although a moderate on social issues, Percy has stood quietly, but staunchly, behind President Reagan's economic program. He faces a strong challenge from the right, from the more uniformly conservative Rep. Tom Corcoran, in what will probably be the only GOP primary for an incumbent...
Richardson faces primary challenges from Dr. Mildred Jefferson of Boston, an anti-abortion activist, and Shamie, who spent nearly $1-million of his own money in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...