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...margin: Houston's Browning Ferris Industries was ordered to pay back $40,000 to its customers within 90 days, as well as to reduce future prices by a total of $120,000. But Ford's decision to lower prices on its high-volume models, including its LTD, Maverick and Mustang, may well have been taken in an effort to avoid the enormous paperwork that would be required to make a refund to all first-quarter Ford buyers...
That, of course, is what Congressman John M. Ashbrook's campaign for President is all about. The Ohio Republican, long a hero of the right wing and a maverick in his own party, believes that Richard Nixon has abandoned the goals he set for himself and the country in 1968. "Restore the '68 Nixon by voting for the '72 Ashbrook," say his supporters. Specifically, Ashbrook attacks Nixon for going to China and selling Taiwan down the river, for running three consecutive deficit budgets, for proposing a "massive" family assistance program, and for sinning against the free market by instituting wage...
Died. Clarence Cook Little, 83, educator and pioneer cancer researcher; in Ellsworth, Me. When Little emerged in 1954 as a spokesman for the tobacco industry, arguing there was no firm clinical evidence linking smoking and lung cancer, few were surprised. The brilliant geneticist had long been regarded as a maverick. Little suspended his research to run the University of Maine from 1922 to 1925. Later, as president of the University of Michigan, he angered students by attempting to ban on-campus drinking and enraged parents by lecturing on birth control. In 1929, Little left Ann Arbor for Bar Harbor, where...
...films are spare, the scripts laconic. This is partly a question of personal style and partly the approach best suited to his frequent leading man, Clint Eastwood. In Dirty Harry, Eastwood plays a maverick San Francisco cop named Harry Callahan who sasses everybody-his chief, his superiors, even the mayor. A psychopathic killer is on the loose, sniping from rooftops, kidnaping young girls to hold the city up for ransom. Callahan is against the mayor's decision to pay the ransom. When he is appointed to deliver the $200,000, he typically decides to try to trap the killer...
...Estes Kefauver was the most authentic--and most successful--maverick in American political history." So begins Joseph Bruce Gorman's biography of the Tennessee Senator who sought the Presidency twice in that forgotten decade of the 1950s. Yet Gorman's lengthy record of Kefauver's political life belies his opening statement. Kefauver was an authentic maverick only in comparison to other Southern politicians and his success was largely confined to winning elections in his home state of Tennessee...