Word: mavericks
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...country will be watching closely for guidance is California, where last week's primary set up clear-cut liberal-conservative contests. Republican Governor Ronald Reagan was unopposed for renomination. He will now face Jess Unruh, a liberal Democrat who easily defeated Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a maverick and a hawkish conservative. In the Senate races, two challengers on the left were defeated when Republican Incumbent George Murphy and Democratic Congressman John Tunney won nomination...
Several of the new churchmen-politicians are one-issue candidates. George McClain, 31. a maverick Methodist minister, whose liberalism on political and religious issues led to a break with his congregation, now heads Shalom House, an ecumenical group on New York's Staten Island. "The peace issue is the central core of my campaign," he says. "It is a symbol against the direction we fear the country is taking." Father Stephen Vesbit, 33. of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is scheduled to announce his candidacy next week, has the same motive in running against House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...
...concocted by addicts of the mushroom as a code for their mystical lore; and that the God of Jews and Christians is ultimately nothing more than a magnificent phallic symbol. Normally, such preposterous stuff would be dismissed as beneath serious discussion. But in this case the author is a maverick philologist of some scholarly standing: John M. Allegro, 47, former lecturer on the Old Testament at the University of Manchester and the first Briton on the international team of editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Ford TV commercial shows a Maverick Grabber in a circle of high-performance cars, while an announcer ticks off the model's cost advantages -thrifty price tag, smaller engine, lower insurance rates. No longer are Galaxies pictured majestically, if enigmatically, atop a desert plateau. The latest ads for the model state simply: "If you're thinking about buying a new car, we've got the facts on our side. Quiet facts. Strong facts. Value facts...
...these races a party label is vital, and the two major political organizations would not necessarily be affected by a change in the electoral system. Presidential candidates would still need this wide web of support; the lack of party money and party workers would still discourage and inhibit maverick challengers. On balance, though, the Bayh amendment would probably weaken the two-party system, encourage the entrance of splinter candidates, and stimulate the ideological divisions in a system that has usually avoided them...