Word: mavericks
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...military censor duly sends to the Iraqi Times the latest Red China news bulletins with passages marked for reprinting. But for the first time, the Communists themselves are divided. Last week not one but two Communist parties asked for licenses-the orthodox outfit and another run by a maverick Marxist editor named Daoud Sayegh, who has done nothing to scotch rumors that much of his money comes out of the pocket of Premier Kassem's government...
...Maverick (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An episode called Maverick and Juliet (presumably by William Shakesaddle) concerns the feuding Carterets and Montgomerys, and their respective children Julie and Sonny, who want to get hitched...
Admitting that there may have been irregularities, TV Boss Bill Orr argued: "Instead of being unhappy, these people should be thankful . . . Look and see what some of these unhappy people were doing before they came to Warner Bros." But the actors were not buying that. Most echoed Maverick's James Garner, who makes a reported $1,750 a week: "I feel like a slab of meat hanging there; every once in a while they cut off a piece...
...mayor, roared back to political life by blasting corruption, unions, the U.N., federal taxes and foreign aid, defeated Democratic State Senator Bruce Jenkins, 32. To Jenkins' warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy, ignored labor's support of Jenkins, gave Lee a plurality of 6,000 votes. Lee's comeback impressed even anti-Lee Republicans enough to welcome him back into the fold, thus paved the way for "Brack" to look ahead once again...
...again in 1932, won the governorship, then got nabbed for conspiracy (forcing federal workers to contribute to his campaign) and was jailed. He defied the court that disqualified him as Governor, won his appeals but lost the G.O.P. 1936 primary, ran successfully as an independent. In the Senate, Maverick Langer excelled in filibusters, fought lend-lease, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, the Taft-Hartley bill and postwar draft...