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Died. Winston Prouty, 65, maverick Republican Senator from Vermont; of cancer; in Boston. A flinty former smalltown mayor, Prouty served for eight years as Vermont's only Congressman before his election to the Senate in 1958. He was a political enigma to most of his colleagues, on the Hill. In 1969, for instance, Prouty provided a crucial pro-Administration vote in favor of the anti-ballistic missile system, then defied the White House by opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell the following year. He also advocated a guaranteed annual income...
...Allies. Having thus dealt with its Republican Governor, the legislature was ready for Lindsay, a G.O.P. maverick. Duryea, even more than Rocky, bore a grudge against the mayor for supporting Democrat Arthur Goldberg for Governor in the last election. Lindsay, moreover, had no useful allies. As Rockefeller put it, "He's a man without a party." Lindsay was beaten in the Republican primary for mayor and won the election only because he had significant Democratic support. Yet the Democrats did not warm to a man who tends to be abrasive in personal encounters. Says Manhattan Assemblyman Franz Leichter...
Married. Norton Simon, 64, industrialist, art collector and maverick California Republican who spent nearly $2,000,000 in an unsuccessful 1970 Senate primary contest; and Jennifer Jones, 52, actress and 1943 Oscar winner for The Song of Bernadette; he for the second time, she for the third; on a yacht in the English Channel...
...loner and a maverick who disdains the Senate "club" way of conducting business, and as a result, his effectiveness as a legislator has been uneven. Proxmire came to the Senate in 1957 after winning a special election to fill the seat vacated by Joseph McCarthy's death. His committee assignments included Banking and Currency, Post Office and Civil Service, which he used to help shape his reputation as one of the chief watchdogs of Government waste...
...Breed either stabbed to death or dying, including one of two Breed castrated; one Angel, Jeffrey Coffey, 22, of Hartford, Conn., dead. A total of 21 others from both gangs were injured, and 57 were charged with first-degree murder. It was the deadliest rumble in the history of maverick motorcycle gangs...