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...diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself...
...Among the many skills that Chairman George Maverick Bunker, 53, brought to Martin Co. nine years ago, none was more valuable than his ability to read the times. He saw no future in planemaking, remade Martin into the first aerospace-age missile and electronics company, turned losses into profits. Next his teacup told him that changeable cold-war winds made even Martin's position as the largest missilemaker precarious. So he set out to diversify, this week in one king-sized jump moved Martin into chemicals, cement, paints, furniture polish, powdered metals and adhesives. His method: merging with Chicago...
American Motors had already behaved like a maverick by offering to share company profits with U.A.W. workers. The profit-sharing scheme-which George Romney prefers to call "progress sharing"-clearly undercut the position of the Big Three. But in return, the Big Three undercut American Motors by agreeing to accept a continuation of cost-of-living and productivity increases-clauses that Romney insisted must be abolished as a condition of profit sharing...
...Guatemala, where philandering approaches the status of a national sport, the present chief of state, President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 65, is a defiant monogamist of 38 years' standing. Last week, after long tolerating the irailties of his colleagues, the marital maverick finally shot off a thunderbolt to the Ministry of Interior. "Public rumors supported by evidence," he wrote, "show that many functionaries and government officials not only have mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat...
...among the 2,200 delegates had come to Miami with more on his mind than girls and giggle water. That man was testy, arrogant James Riddle Hoffa, 48, boss of the 1,700,000-member union and maverick of the U.S. labor movement...