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...Democratic Party." Some 750 Democrats, including Senators Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and "Scoop" Jackson, paid $125 for dinner at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to honor Elder Statesman Averell Harriman, 82, and raise money for party candidates. There was also a Republican maverick. Describing herself as "just an old, broken-down Bull Moose," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 90, said the dinner was. her first-ever Democratic bash. Marking Harriman's 40-year career as a politician and diplomat under four Presidents were members of their families: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Margaret Truman Daniel, Lynda Bird...
...place that they use while they're skiing up there, and that's where we headed for Thursday night, planning to get up around 6 a.m. Friday to fish the morning rise (optimistically forgetting that this time of year there would be no early morning rise.) Hurtling in our Maverick through the New Hampshire night, decidedly less grand than a Tom Wolfe passenger train (carrying only our tackle with us instead of the metaphorical baggage for a nation), we safely arrived, ate and went to sleep. There was, after all, serious business for the morning, and besides, some...
Altman is something of a maverick among Hollywood directors. Since his first widespread recognition with M*A*S*H, he has found himself too often making movies which threaten to have to wait ten or twenty years for recognition because of ineffectual studio backing. When I talked to him earlier this week he was at his office at "Lionsgate Productions," a studio he started simply "to make my own films, in my own little studio." He is determined "to keep away from the atmosphere of studios and keep the people I work with away from them. Because all that stuff...
...randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status. Nor do such qualities depend upon the amount of his schooling or "brains"; IQ tests do not measure character. This may be why William F. Buckley, that maverick among snobs, would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone book than a similar number of Harvard faculty members...
...that sought to prevent him from running simultaneously for Vice President and for Senator. When L.B.J. was President, he wanted to appoint Jaworski Attorney General. But sensitive to charges of cronyism, the President reluctantly named Ramsey Clark instead. By conservative Texas standards, in fact, Jaworski has often been a maverick. He defended a liberal school-board member who was under furious attack from conservatives, and he was chosen to prosecute former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett for criminal contempt for trying to block desegregation...