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Food is the overwhelming problem of India. Many an Indian cabinet minister has staked his reputation on solving the food problem, and has lost. But bouncing, brawny Sadashiv Kanoji Patil, 59, is a maverick among the elite who have largely staffed the echelons of India's government since independence...
Alaska's once rough-and-ready students have been so tamed that lads who used to brawl merrily in taverns now while away winter's "cabin fever" by placidly staring at TV's Maverick. If students still use car trunks as deep-freezers for fresh game, they seldom skin moose in the dormitories and hang the carcasses outside the windows. President Patty has even clamped down on beards, mukluks and Levi's; slacks and jackets are now fashionable. To those who protest, Patty snaps: "Fellow, civilization has caught up with you. I advise...
...maverick on the Federal Power Commission is William R. Connole, 37, a Connecticut political independent. For the past five years Connole has built a reputation as a dissenter from his colleagues, a defender of the consumer by urging stricter regulation of natural gas prices. He was the lone dissenter in the precedent-setting C.A.T.C. case (TIME, July 8,1957), when the FPC allowed new field gas sales worth $1 billion without final approval of the rates. Connole's dissent was implicitly endorsed by the U.S. Supreme Court when it criticized the FPC decision, upholding the contention of New York...
...Senate to signal the right time to produce a proposal that had a chance to satisfy Northern liberals, moderate Democrats and Republicans, give him the 67 (two-thirds plus one) votes to win cloture and pass the legislation itself. Apparently the time was days away; when Oregon's maverick Democrat Wayne Morse offered a cloture petition in one predawn session, Kentucky's usually affable Thruston Morton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, strode to the clerk's desk and ripped...
...TIME, June 22) indignantly denied that he was proCommunist. "I am no Trojan horse," intoned dissident Christian Democrat Milazzo. "I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse, a noble animal." He became president of Sicily's semi-autonomous regional government, ruling in coalition with the Communists. But last week Maverick Milazzo, no longer regarded as so pure-blooded a Sicilian horse, was put to pasture...