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Early in the Cavett crusade, maverick FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, a frequent guest on the show, telephoned Cavett from Washington to ask how he could help. Soon sponsors began to rally round. "The Cavett show is an outstanding buy that delivers a quality audience," wrote Hormel Marketing Director Thomas Purcell in a letter to ABC. "The general ratings really don't mean that much. What counts is the people the show is reaching...
...would be spent by the Government to upgrade education, fight pollution, improve rapid transit and hire people who cannot find jobs in the private economy. Private investment would probably suffer. But McGovern's brain-trusters-mostly economists at M.I.T., Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and Princeton, who get advice from Maverick John Kenneth Galbraith-are not worried. They argue that U.S. business would be kept humming, thanks to increased Government investment and more spending by the no-longer poor...
...course by remote control, or the bomb, having "memorized" the picture of the target with its built-in electronic brain, can aim itself for a direct hit. The Walleye is employed mainly against bridges and other large targets. An even more sophisticated "EO" (electro-optical) missile called the Maverick has a rocket booster, which enables it to maneuver, so that it can fly into caves where North Vietnamese have hidden artillery pieces and other essential military supplies...
...lacocca, LL.D., president of Ford Motor Co. Creative involvement in the evolution of that corral of young people's vehicles [Mustang, Maverick, Pinto] has shown a balanced alertness to engineering, financial and psychological trends...
...Jaime Miralles Alvarez, 51, is also a maverick reformer whose libertarian convictions frequently get him in trouble. In 1962, for instance, he was exiled to Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, for eleven months. Miralles had made the mistake of attending a meeting in Munich of an organization that advocated European unity, and was therefore considered dangerous by Spanish authorities. In 1970 he was one of 120 prominent Spaniards who were fined between $500 and $3,000 for signing a letter that urged U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers to hear their case against renewing the agreements for U.S. military bases...