Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...what they call "time-paid-not-worked" that would add millions of dollars to labor costs. In the last negotiations three years ago, both sides reached agreement on economic issues (the U.A.W. got a package amounting to 17? an hour), but disputes over working conditions provoked strikes by maverick locals that paralyzed both Ford and G.M. for about two weeks. "The chances of trouble this year are greater than they have been at any time since 1946," says one top negotiator. "Somebody's got to come down off the mountain...
...Pierre shelled out $4,000,000 of his fortune to replace more than 100 rundown public schools in the state. Today, hardly any Du Pont activity surprises anybody, including other Du Ponts. One (Ethel) even married a Roosevelt (Franklin D. Jr.); they got divorced in 1949. Current Du Pont maverick is Mrs. Colgate W. Darden Jr., great-great-granddaughter of the founder. Mrs. Darden is a leader in the fight against indiscriminate use of pesticide chemicals. Her husband, onetime Governor of Virginia, is a board director of a Du Pont company that manufactures pesticides...
Early Sunday, after six weary hours of discussion with the family and its maverick princess, Prime Minister Marijnen and three senior ministers decided sadly that the time had not yet come when the Dutch could contemplate a Catholic monarch and a Spanish consort. Rather than renounce her love, Irene renounced the right of succession and agreed to live in exile. So died a princess...
...partnership is a natural. Ever since he joined his Martin Co. with American-Marietta three years ago, Chairman George Maverick Bunker, 56, has been selling off his least profitable operations and building a nest egg that now amounts to $150 million. On the other hand, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge has the biggest industrial process-control operation in the U.S., supplies devices to such firms as U.S. Steel (to control oxygen furnaces) and Riverside Cement (to regulate cement blending). But TRW did not have capital enough to develop the business and make it profitable. With Martin putting up the cash and owning...