Word: maverickly
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...Sweet It Is!, nearly all the personnel came out of the tube. Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer...
Oregon is haven to the maverick and uplifter of the underdog. In last week's primary. Oregon Democrats allowed Eugene McCarthy to check Robert Kennedy's drive, while the Republicans gave new velocity to Richard Nixon's bid for the nomination. By so doing, Oregonians made it more likely than ever that the post-convention contest would be between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two ostensible traditionalists in the crowd...
Wayne Lyman Morse proudly records in the Congressional Directory that he was once a professor of "argumentation." For the past 23 years, his flair for public argy-bargy has persuaded Oregon's voters to keep him in the U.S. Senate-even while he performed his maverick metempsychoses from Republican to independent in 1952 and from independent to Democrat in 1954. This year for the first time, the professor very nearly lost his podium...
...over Wilson's economic measures and high-handed way of running things. Former Foreign Secretary George Brown, who has stubbornly refused to quit his post as the party's deputy leader, is out to cause Wilson trouble; last week the party had to expel Desmond Donnelly, a maverick who leans to the right, for refusing to knuckle under to party discipline. If Wilson fails to revive Britain's sluggish economy and restore his position by October, he will be under unrelenting pressure from many Laborites to hand over his job to someone...
...Just over a month ago, Texas Radio-TV Millionaire Gordon McLendon announced that "as partial payment for all the good things that have come my way in life," he would run for the Governor's office being vacated this year by John Connally. Abruptly last week the maverick Democrat appeared on 26 Texas television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice...