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Opposites. Wispy, oh-so-waspy Wayne Morse, 62, and big, cautious Sig Unander are as different as two men can be. Morse is a blazing liberal; Unander is a rock-solid economic conservative. Morse is a maverick-he was a Republican, then a self-styled Independent before turning Democrat in 1954. Unander is a party regular-the scion of a wealthy lumber family, he is a former state treasurer and G.O.P. state chairman, served on the Federal Maritime Board during the Eisenhower Administration. Morse got off to a late campaign start, is now running like the wind. Unander has been...
...drag on for a lifetime, despairing victims are easy prey for quacks. They spend an estimated $250 million a year for treatments that are worthless-or, worse, dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the importation of one such dangerous "remedy" known as Liefcort, which a maverick Canadian doctor has been making in his basement...
...politics are somewhat like the croquet game in Alice in Wonderland; the rules are topsy-turvy. A criminal conviction not only fails to tarnish a local candidate, but can enhance his political prospects. The latest example of this strange phenomenon is the victory of convict Charles Iannello, a political maverick from Roxbury's eighth ward, in the recent Democratic primary...
...there is a maverick in every outfit; Reporter Roger Simmons of the Florence News nourished a newsman's distaste for military regulations and was unspoiled by Washington obeisance to protocol. Ignoring the ban, he climbed a barrier and assaulted the stands where McNamara was watching an airdrop of 4,000 paratroopers...
...Oregon's maverick U.S. Senator Wayne Morse considers Newhouse a national plague. "The American people," cried Morse, in a sulphurous 1960 speech from the Senate floor, "need to be warned before it is too late about the threat which is arising as a result of the monopolistic practices of the Newhouse interests." That same year, when Newhouse bought into two Springfield, Mass, dailies, Sidney R. Cook, treasurer and board member, promptly called the interloper "a menace" and "a graveyard superintendent" who "goes around picking up the bones?preying on widows and split families." Added Cook: "I can tell you this...