Word: mavericks
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Thompson's opposition for the nomination, conservative Republican Richard Cooper, chairman of Weight Watchers of Chicago Inc., is thought to be negligible. Thompson's real challenge will be to defeat incumbent Democrat Daniel Walker, 52, a tough party maverick who walked the state to win election three years ago in defiance of Richard Daley's political machine. Along with his impressive track record, Thompson enters the race, according to a survey conducted by Market Opinion Research of Detroit Co., with a 75% statewide recognition factor and a job approval percentage of 80. In a recent telephone poll...
Meanwhile, Narain, a maverick, quick-tempered member of the upper house who has been in jail for some protest or other at least once a year since 1947, and who has frequently had to be bodily carried out of legislative sessions for refusing to obey the speaker's rules of order, gloated over the turmoil he had wrought. "The court has done its duty," he said. "Now there must be demonstrations all over the country forcing the Prime Minister to resign...
...that the Premier is a waffling dove. The general's charisma will also blunt the appeal of Rabin critics like former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Since Sharon becomes a civil servant who by law cannot openly criticize the government, Rabin has also neatly stilled the voice of a maverick politician who once called him both "naive" and "childish" for indicating willingness to trade Abu Rudeis and the Sinai passes for a peace agreement with Sadat...
...dare you intimate that Justice William O. Douglas should resign his seat [April 7]? Throughout my entire lifetime he has been the voice of the people-the maverick who stood up for the underdog. I have no doubt that he is still the capable and forward-thinking jurist that he has always been. Janice Leber North Hollywood, Calif...
Hughes Aircraft Co. (Culver City, Calif.), TOW and Maverick missiles, and electronics; $122.3 million...