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...became the first Catholic scholar elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, and he is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the first Catholic to hold this post. Within his own church, however, McKenzie is something of a maverick. Other Jesuits consider him a loner, and he now prefers to seek teaching assignments outside his society's institutions. Next fall, after summer teaching at the United Presbyterians' San Francisco Theological Seminary, he takes up residency at Notre Dame, which is run by the Congregation of Holy Cross...
...California political experts give the maverick mayor more than an outside chance of upsetting Brown, who, while lacking charisma, has given the state effective, honest government during his two terms in office. Yorty, an irascible former Congressman who has been Los Angeles' mayor for five years, has done his best to ignore such problems as Watts-to the extent of blocking urgently needed federal anti-poverty funds for the area before last August's riots. Recent polls of registered Democrats indicate that Brown would trounce him by a margin of nearly...
Long Island's $1.5 billion Franklin National Bank, a traditional maverick, offered 4.8% for five-month savings certificates (a form of deposit certificate) as small as $19.69. At least 15 New York savings banks hit back by lifting their savings-account rate to 4½% - a full ½% above the legal limit for rival commercial banks. Last week the 4½% savings rate spread to S. & L.s in Minneapolis, Dallas, Kansas City and parts of Missouri. By week's end, savings and loan men estimated that 250 S. & L.s and at least 100 banks had raised their rates...
Manhattan Maverick. Oddly enough, the first Republican in decades with enough polyphyletic appeal to stand even a chance of winning is a WASP. John Vliet Lindsay, 43, is a towering (6 ft. 3 in.), Yale-educated Congressman from the city's well-heeled 17th District, who charged into the race five months ago as an authentic Manhattan maverick. He got the G.O.P. nomination and that of New York's labor-oriented Liberal Party, and disassociated himself from all the big-league Republicans-Dick Nixon, Nelson Rocke feller, Dwight Eisenhower-who might have campaigned for him in New York...
...invaded by Red China while fighting Pakistan. Warned Mahon: "It would be a horrendous thing for this Government to tie its hands under these circumstances." House Republican leaders, who had obviously overlooked such an eventuality, canceled plans to sponsor an amendment-though Ohio Republican Frank Bow offered a maverick restriction of his own, only to have it shouted down along with a proposed dollar slash that was part of the same motion...