Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations' currencies against the dollar and promising less stiff import competition to Detroit. More important, the domestic industry has come up with some hot new or redesigned models. GM has heavily scored with a new four-door Chevette. Ford's Fairmont and Zephyr, which have replaced the Maverick and the Comet in the compact class, are moving out of showrooms in startling numbers. Indeed, the Fairmont is selling faster than the Mustang did when it was introduced in 1965. Says Ford President Lee lacocca: "We expect to top the first-year Mustang record" of 418,800 cars...
...national pastime. The sale-temporarily blocked last week by a federal court restraining order obtained by the Oakland Coliseum-must be okayed by ten of the American League's 14 owners. But approval should be quickly forthcoming from men who have little love for Finley and his maverick behavior...
...election strengthened the verligte (enlightened) wing of the National Party as voters approved a number of attractive party newcomers. Among them: Dr. Jan Marais, 58, the original driving force behind the independent South African Foundation and a maverick Afrikaner who has questioned many of the government's apartheid laws; Christophe Rencken, 40, a political commentator for the South African Broadcasting Corp.; and Denis Worrall, 43, the English-speaking former director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. Worrall advocates a substantial revision of the government's apartheid blueprint, including some kind of constitutional role...
Moscow has sharply criticized Carrillo in recent years for his maverick beliefs and his assertion of the independence of European Communist parties from Soviet hegemony...
...playing just that Marxist maverick role, however, Carrillo has won much attention. Cambio 16, a respected Madrid weekly, has described him as "one of the most Machiavellian, intelligent and chameleon-like politicians on the world scene." That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...