Word: mavericks
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Contender for Interior Secretary . . . Age 45 . . . Maverick who refused help of Idaho's Democratic machine when he first ran for Governor in 1966 . . . Lost then, but was elected in his second try in 1970 . . . Strongly advocated-and got passed-environmental legislation despite opposition of state's influential timber and mining industries . . . Knows Carter from Governors' conferences in early 1970s . . . Campaigned strongly for him . . . Son of a lumbermill operator, was elected to state senate at 29, served four terms . . . Married, with three daughters . . . Lutheran . . . An energetic sort, has been TV pitchman for Idaho potatoes, played celebrity golf (best...
...parties in the lower house of the Diet (the other loser: the Communists, who dropped 22 of their 39 seats). The chief beneficiaries of the voter uprising were three moderate reform groups: the Buddhist-backed Komeito (Clean Government Party), the Democratic Socialist Party and the New Liberal Club, a maverick L.D.P. spin-off dedicated to "rehabilitating conservatism...
While the government has swung left and right in the last eight years, the entertainment media have always been dominated by America. I did not expect to see "The Streets of San Francisco" and "Barnaby Jones" on Peruvian television, but I did--along with "The Munsters," "Maverick," and the favorite of my host family and President Ford, "Policewoman...
...such historian, Allen Weinstein, a professor at Smith College, has found himself in the middle of a literary brouhaha in the pages of The New York Review of Books and The New York Times over his maverick stand in the now re-ignited Hiss case controversy...
...breast-feeding mother with her two-week-old infant in tow. A Britain-baiting bartender from Northern Ireland. A maverick former Tory who has been widely denounced as a racist. It was an odd trio, but their support proved essential to Britain's beleaguered Labor government last week as Parliament narrowly passed a series of hotly debated bills. Had the measures been defeated, Prime Minister James Callaghan could have been forced to dissolve the Commons and call for new elections. The closeness of the votes was further proof that Callaghan's hold on No. 10 Downing Street...