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...first seat in the House of Commons in 1957. In 1964, during Wilson's first term as Prime Minister, he served as Aviation Minister and later as Postmaster General. He was not offered a post in the new Labor government, however, because of his reputation as an unreliable maverick. Nonetheless, according to his family, Stonehouse was trying to build up a fortune in preparation for an eventual bid for the Labor Party leadership...
...proposal immediately squared off the maverick Ford against almost everyone else in the auto industry. A Chrysler spokesman said that it was "not in the country's best interest and would increase transportation costs and add to inflationary pressures." Richard Gerstenberg, who stepped down last week as General Motors chairman, had reservations basically unchanged from a month ago, when he called proposals for a gasoline-tax increase discriminatory and a "terrible thing." He prefers a tax on imported oil that would spread the burden more evenly among all petroleum users...
...Maverick Streak. Despite Umansky's muckraking instincts, the new venture is hardly antiEstablishment. An enrolled Republican, Umansky was Wichita's Advertising Man of the Year in 1967 and professes "twinges of conservatism." His solid reputation as an executive enabled him to land a $276,000 grubstake from KAKE'S board of directors, which represents some of Wichita's first families. The Sun's advertisers include many mainstays of the business community, who agree that the Eagle and Beacon have grown flabby...
...publisher's sober side appealed to Wichita's pillars, it was his maverick streak that helped attract a young and capable staff to the Sun. Editorial Consultant Richard Crocker, 36, who oversees a stable of seven reporters, is on leave from his editing job at the Washington Post. Investigative Reporter Randy Brown, 34, contributed to the Omaha Sun's Pulitzer-prizewinning exposé of Boys' Town. Former Beacon Copy Chief Les Anderson, 25, was lured away from the Ridder operation along with other talented but disgruntled writers. "I was turning into a vegetable," he says. "There...
...politically pretentious and cleverly cynical as this one, this musical comedy is positively self-indulgent. And in an era when police graft and political embezzlement are no more surprising than that Senate investigation hearings should compete successfully with afternoon soap operas, this tale of Tammany Hall and the maverick politician who, as much as any man could, managed to overcome the forces of evil is a natural...