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...that clan, willing to meet with a friend of O'Neill's who wanted to bid on a large construction job overseas even though the man had not been an early Kennedy supporter. But Robert Kennedy is depicted as ungracious and ruthless. "To me, he was a self- important upstart and a know-it-all. To him, I was simply a street-corner...
Every so often a tiny upstart tackles a corporate giant and wins. Last week it was the turn of Manhattan-based American Natural Beverage, which should sell about $30 million of its Soho Natural Sodas this year. In an out-of-court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...
Rounding up the financing is half the battle, but independents are now finding many more sources. Filmmakers can often patch together their financing from advance sales to videocassette distributors, cable-TV channels and foreign exhibitors. Thus part of the procedure for upstart filmmakers is to hit the road with sample reels of their movies-in-progress, seeking to find buyers at film festivals and industry conventions all over the world. One independent, John Sayles, director of the 1984 hit The Brother from Another Planet, finances his own movies by grinding out screenplays like The Clan of the Cave Bear...
...Orangemen, ranked No. 10 nationally and second in the region behind the Tar Heels, held off upstart Florida 87-81 in the opening game at the Brendan Byrne Arena behind a career-high 33-point performance by center Rony Seikaly...
...Europe, after a scandal of the proportions of Contragate, Presidential advisers would form a queue out the door and Reagan himself would be strongly considering following suit. Yet this crisis, a quintessential political scandal complete with upstart underlings and clued-out Cabinet members has somehow been successfully extricated from the realm of politics. This is wrong...