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Still smarting from Vice President Spiro Agnew's characterization of maverick Senator Charles Goodell as "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," Christine nevertheless did her best to be ladylike. "No, I don't have one of those Agnew dart boards," the blonde pioneer of sex-switchery told an inquirer. "I think it's wrong and disrespectful to put any elected official on a dart board. But I think it's rather interesting that he says I'm in the public domain, but that he apparently considers himself out of the public domain, because...
TENNESSEE: Albert Gore, a maverick liberal from a southern state has fallen behind his Republican opponent, Rep. W. E. Brock. Gore has been a prime target of the Southern strategy and is open to Brock charges of "aiding the enemy" for his support of anti-war legislation...
Monitoring the civil war in Jordan last week, Cairo radio was unusually severe: "Egypt will not allow a Palestine maverick group to jeopardize the peace-seeking efforts of the Arabs." Moscow, too, scolded the guerrillas and warned Syria and Iraq, both Peking-leaning regimes, to keep hands off. As far as Jordan is concerned, the Soviets presumably would prefer even a monarchy to guerrillas who might wind up in Peking's corner...
...maverick journalist-politician, J-J S-S only recently won a Deputy's seat from Nancy (TIME, July 6). What gave the race added curiosity value was the fact that neither man will serve if elected. Both Chaban-Delmas and J-J S-S have announced that they will retain their present offices. Chaban-Delmas has said he will turn the Bordeaux Deputy's post over to his alternate, and J-J S-S will probably resign...
Lately, paladins of the public interest, including Maverick FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, have risen up against what Johnson calls the commission's "complacent and comfortable hear-no-evil, see-no-evil slouch in front of the radio and television sets of America." Critics of U.S. broadcasting point out that the insufficiency of that service is probably less attributable to the networks than to the local channels. Affiliated stations frequently undercut the networks' efforts to increase cultural and public-affairs programming by refusing to carry it. Similarly, in order to increase profits, the stations stint on such programming...