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Died. Matthew Smith, 64, secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, and sometime maverick of U.S. labor, who in 1942 created the Confederated Unions of America to buck the hegemony of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Articulate, Lancashire-born Matthew Smith-who stirred up the nation when he called strikes in wartime-thought that the closed shop, dues checkoffs, rigid seniority systems and party politics should be shunned by a healthy union...
...banking, power production and housing, Echandi triumphed in an election notably free of bloodshed or ballot juggling. His National Union Party, backed by two former Presidents, polled 103,326 votes. Figueres' chosen successor, Francisco Orlich, a former Public Works Minister, drew 97,102 votes, and Jorge Rossi, a maverick from the Figuerista ranks...
Businessmen were delighted with the victory for free enterprise. Taking defeat with his usual aplomb, Pepe declared: "I showed them how to run a country; now I'll show them how to oppose." First task for Oppositionist Figueres: patching up differences with maverick Rossi, who perhaps drained off enough votes to ensure Echandi's election. In the new Congress, Pepe will have 19 seats, to 19 for the two factions behind Echandi. Rossi, with five seats, holds the balance of power...
Bread & Butter. A self-styled maverick who dropped out of the University of Chicago Law School "because I didn't like it," Bruce Sagan is the youngest of three sons of a wealthy Manhattan garment manufacturer-and thus, in the eyes of his critics, has gone from riches to a rag. Even with help from his family, Sagan's success has been powered by a broad streak of pugnacity and a keen nose for news. Says his old City News boss, Managing Editor Isaac Gershman: "He moves three times faster than anyone else...
...According to Webster's: "After S. A. Maverick (1803-70), a Texas cattle owner who did not brand his calves, 1) An unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf; 2) a refractory individual who bolts his group and initiates an independent course." Garner's own definition: "A sort of freewheeling slick...