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...less foreign coal. He made headlines over the past year during the Bobby Baker investigation. He has joined Sen. Clark in an unusual bipartisan "Report to the People" on television in non-campaign years. He was instrumental in securing the 1962 gubernatorial nomination for Scranton and, though a maverick on many issues, he has achieved a position of leadership within the state party organization...
...bishop." Although his diocese is largely conservative in both politics and theology, Hines outspokenly supported racial integration in public schools; he has also angered many laymen by denouncing the John Birch Society and other groups on "the radical right." In 1961, after defending the right of California's maverick Bishop James A. Pike to describe the virgin birth as a myth, Hines withstood criticism with his usual equanimity. "A bishop," he shrugs, "is the lightning rod of the ecclesiastical heavens and sometimes must be prepared for shocks...
Wisconsin: Incumbent Democrat William W. Proxmire, 48, is better known than Republican Wilbur N. Renk, 55, former chairman of the University of Wisconsin's board of regents, also enjoys a reputation as a maverick in a state that loves to elect mavericks. Proxmire has the lead, but he will have to work to keep...
Broken Rule. Such maverick practices are getting Steinberg everywhere. Since he took over the listless Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952, he has molded it into a musical instrument of precision and depth; it now ranks as one of the five or six best orchestras in the country...
Until his vote in favor of the foreign aid bill two years ago, Dirksen was regarded as being much farther right than he seems now, although he could at times be a maverick from the conservative cause. Since then he has cultivated the image of a statesmanlike, middle of the road Minority Leader, and backed it up with some key votes which brought him boundless praise. But Dirksen's support of Goldwater merely reaffirms the central fact of his political life when seen in the perspective of 30 years in Washington...