Word: mavericks
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...Democratic primary May 24, Duncan decisively defeated Morse's candidate, Howard Morgan, with the help of the state AFL-CIO. Morse, always a maverick (he used to be a Republican himself) is quietly supporting Hatfield and predicts that he will win in November. The outcome is far from clear. Both candidates are effective campaigners and proven vote-getters, and there will probably be considerable crossing of party lines...
...next convention, close to the acceptable age limit even for a Vice President. One of the greatest votegetters in New York State's history, he is a shoo-in for a third six-year Senate term in 1968. Though a member of the minority party and something of a maverick, whose abrasiveness and hustle have always barred him from the Senate's cozy inner establishment, he has achieved rare respect and stature by force of intellect, diligence and integrity...
...Dairyman George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco. The G.O.P.'s 2-to-l choice underscored the Democratic dogfight in which Brown got 1,334,286 votes v. 994,821 for his principal opponent, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, a feisty maverick who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and calls Brown a "captive of left-wingers...
...many ways, Louis I. Kahn is architecture's favorite maverick. No trim glass and steel boxes for him. Kahn's vocabulary includes truncated towers, round arches, even domes. He was once one of the most promising pupils of French-born Architect Paul Phi lippe Cret, designer of Washington's Pan-American Union. At first glance, Kahn may seem like a Beaux-Arts architect, but at the age of 65, he has achieved near-divine status among today's architecture students...
...Democratic primary May 24, Duncan decisively defeated Morse's candidate, Howard Morgan, with the help of the state AFL-CIO. Morse, always a maverick (he used to be a Republican himself) is quietly supporting Hatfield and predicts that he will win in November. The outcome is far from clear. Both candidates are effective campaigners and proven vote-getters, and there will probably be considerable crossing of party lines...