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...state, Conservative Rafferty would be easier to beat in a general election than Liberal Kuchel. No Democrat of national stature has yet entered the primary campaign for the nomination, but several possibilities are sitting in the wings closely watching Rafferty's progress. They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...
...pounded into more or less human shape. His great slabs of beef (inspired by Rembrandt) were hideously bloodsplattered. His landscapes were wildly out of perspective. Yet today, a quarter of a century after his death (at the age of 50 in Paris), Soutine no longer seems an ec centric maverick; instead he has be come a mainstream figure in 20th cen art. The shift in judgment has been largely caused by the emergence of the New York school of abstract expressionism, whose leaders built with the same slapdash compulsiveness...
MORSE'S very independence may be an asset in the end. Many Oregonians say they do not agree with what Morse says, but that they are proud to be represented by such an outspoken individualist. Such Oregonians see Morse as a maverick Senator representing a maverick state...
Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers Yorty, is "the Times's boy." Ignoring his charge, the Times has contented itself by noting editorially that "city hall will be as clean as Mayor Yorty wants...
Britain's economic plight and its failure to make any headway with the Common Market constituted such a mess, said maverick right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...