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...OREGON. Oregonians are calling it the maverick election. Wayne L. Morse, who shifted from Republican to Independent to Democrat during a 24-year Senate career, is attempting a comeback against Mark O. Hatfield, a Republican Senator so divorced from party positions that he skipped the G.O.P. Convention and has answers ready whenever voters question his differences with President Nixon. "Each man is an individual with whom party loyalty and responsibility are secondary concepts," suggests former Congressman Robert Duncan, who has run unsuccessfully for the Senate against both Hatfield and Morse. But that, plus the fact that both men are staunch...
...Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 45, the maverick Republican from Northern California who waged a quixotic campaign against Nixon in the presidential primaries, now finds himself in a tightening race against James Stewart, 35, a similarly liberal lawyer and Democrat who McCloskey once said "would make a great Congressman if he has the privilege to beat me in November." At the beginning of the campaign, both men agreed to a schedule of 33 debates; so far, only 13 have been held, and the tone has been more courteous than antagonistic. Their major point of disagreement is over whether McCloskey has become...
Born. To Senator Strom Thurmond, 69, South Carolina's maverick senior statesman (and most prominent physical fitness fanatic), who bolted the Democrats and became a Republican, and Nancy Thurmond, 25, Miss South Carolina of 1966: their second child, first son; in Greenwood, S.C. Name: James Strom Thurmond...
Other than that, it's business pretty much as usual in Joe Kidd, a leisurely Eastwood western in which the star is presumably recuperating from the rigors of his recent Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me. In the title role, Eastwood is the leading maverick of Sinola, N. Mex., a town in the grip of a land war between the Anglo settlers and disgruntled Mexicans, led by a firebrand named Luis Chama (John Saxon...
Died. Paul Goodman, 60, maverick social theorist whose bestselling Growing Up Absurd attacked societal foundations and became a handbook for the alienated young (see EDUCATION...