For the Senate

TWELVE TO ONE.

Her campaign T- Shirts say GIVE 'EM HELL, HARRIETT. That is precisely what the Democratic challenger is doing. Harriett Woods, 55, a Missouri state senator and well-known talk-show host, has campaigned ceaselessly against incumbent Republican John Danforth's support of Reagan's economic programs, an approach that is going down well in the traditionally Democratic and fiscally floundering Show Me State. Danforth, 46, an Episcopal priest, heir to the Ralston Purina fortune and Missouri attorney general for eight years before becoming a Senator in 1976, is outspending Woods 2 to 1 and...

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