Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While still in Shanghai she had heard rumors about the Red Army's maverick chief Mao Tse-tung and his redoubtable partner Chu Teh. Sporadic news reports and travelers shuttling back and forth between the White and the Red Areas conveyed mixed impressions of Mao, a peasant rebel and people's defender with a modern revolutionary consciousness. She had only a faint idea of his appearance and no notion of his personality. Like other recruits to Yenan she was fascinated by differences among the leading comrades and became aware of Mao's aura of aloofness-his Olympian...
...advent of Murdoch, publishing tycoon on three continents, is of more than parochial New York City interest: he gave promise, with his money and his maverick irreverence, of brightening up the increasingly sedate American newspaper scene. The trend is all the other way: newspapers in monopoly cities being sold for huge sums to absentee conglomerates. Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves. So far Murdoch, a fellow refreshingly free of cultural pretensions...
...that time, Powell's obsession so embarrassed Britain's Conservatives that Tory Leader Edward Heath booted his maverick front bencher out of the shadow cabinet. Powell later gave up a Tory seat he had held for 24 years, joined the Ulster Unionists and returned to Parliament from South Down, a Northern Ireland district, but his clipped mustache and hypnotic blue eyes remain familiar all over the country...
...dealer is Freddie Laker, 54, a British aviation maverick who has become the self-proclaimed St. George of cheap transatlantic air travel. His $70 million fleet of ten planes-including three 345-passenger McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jumbo trijets-is painted in the red, white and black colors of his racing stud farm. The planes now work mainly on low-cost charters, including Advance Booking Charters, which Laker helped pioneer. But his No. 1 priority -or threat, as heads of the scheduled airlines would put it-is Skytrain, his proposed cheap ($135 one way), no-frills transatlantic air shuttle service...
...Cabinet choice was easier for Jimmy Carter to make than that of Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus, 45, for Interior Secretary. He was the only man ever considered for the job, said Carter. A flamboyant, maverick Democrat, Andrus has built his political career on the bedrock of espousing conservation causes−a subject that much interests Carter. Andrus gained his experience in a mountainous, 83,550-sq.-mi. state, where nearly two-thirds of the land is under federal control and hence subject to intensive pressures from those who want to exploit its natural resources...