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...months as chairman of the Fed, Bill Miller, 54, has been something of a maverick. He speaks freely to the press, signs most of his business letters Bill, and takes off his jacket on occasion at congressional hearings. A businessman and lawyer rather than an economist by training, he has been remarkably accurate in his economic forecasting. Known from the beginning as a determined inflation fighter, he has taken the position that the Fed should be dedicated to a long-term plan for reducing the inflation rate over the next five to seven years and should not react nervously...
Back in Qum, Khomeini remained something of a theological maverick. At the Madresseh Faizieh, he lectured on the need for Islamic mullahs to involve themselves in politics, as the prophet had done. Khomeini also taught a course in ethics that was, in reality, a discussion of political science from an Islamic viewpoint. Despite his unorthodox ways, or perhaps because of them, he became increasingly popular with students...
...went to work bumper to bumper, crawling at 5 m.p.h. to 15 m.p.h. around the Kennedy Center, burning gas, inhaling everybody else's fumes. He was caught in a monstrous mechanical snake, frustrated and angry. The insurance costs on his own 1971 Ford station wagon and 1973 Maverick jumped. A battery went dead one rainy morning, and he had to drive unshaven to Sears for a replacement. There was a line, so he had to take a number, like somebody at a meat market. The waiting seemed to take forever. Waste, waste...
Until now Henry Irwin, 62, a West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen...
Indulging his fondness for state visits once again, Rumania's maverick Communist ruler Nicolae Ceauşescu last week was in the middle of a 17-day, eight-nation tour of Africa and the Middle East. One thing he surely spent little worrying about was his political base back home. In his absence there was hardly an important area of national life that was not watched over by some relative he had placed in a top position over the years...