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...whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence or under, or just plain dang through. He's the most intelligent animal I've ever encountered." For four exasperating years the chase continued...
...argument against metals controls is that agreements tend to set prices too high, make quotas too rigid. Furthermore, metals controls are easily frustrated by the discovery of new or cheaper sources of supply-or by the market dealings of a maverick. The International Tin Council ran out of cash trying to support prices in the face of Russian dumping because it set its floor price at an unrealistic level of 91¼? per lb. With the council out of support funds, the price dropped to 80? per lb., is now firming...
...exact measure of the effect of Maverick Lee's intervention, Utahans will have to wait until the November general election. Even admirers of the Lee brand of political intransigence give him only an outside chance at best of beating Arthur Watkins...
...Maverick. In the tradition-filigreed world of highbrow music, the Texas longhair is a maverick who conforms to nobody's image of a virtuoso. His family has been American on both sides for at least four generations. His pale baby face, with its cornflower-blue eyes beneath a tangle of yellow hair, might suggest a choir boy-which he has been. He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental. Former Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson recalls that once, in an orchestral tutti during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard...
...physical education classes because of the damage they might do to his hands. Says one of his contemporaries: "He never had any trouble having a good time. He was a good dancer. He was one of the most congenial boys in school." But Van was also as much a maverick in smalltown Texas as he was later to seem on the international concert circuit. Childhood and adolescence, outside his family, he remembers as "a living hell." He had reached his full 6 ft. 4 in. (size 12 shoes) by the time he was 14, and he was excruciatingly selfconscious...