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...Party Maverick. The predictions were dead right. Diefenbaker rolled up 777 votes on the first round. His closest rival, French-speaking Donald Fleming, 51, of Toronto, who attracted a heavy Quebec vote, polled 393; 40-year-old Davie Fulton of Vancouver...
...Oregon, cold-eyed Wayne Morse, 56, the maverick ex-Republican marked as the G.O.P.'s prime target in the Senate races, withstood the Western Eisenhower surge, to defeat, by more than 20,000 votes, Ikeman Douglas McKay, who had resigned as Secretary of the Interior at Ike's urging to take on the bloodiest senatorial battle in Oregon's history...
Cheer & Heartbreak. Lowney has fed, clothed and sheltered as many as 17 writers at one time, currently has only four in residence. But she is often disappointed. The maverick personalities she attracts-social rebels, ex-jailbirds, protesting college boys-sometimes desert the colony at the crucial moment. Says Lowney: "I've had four books just about finished here that walked out. Good books. It's heartbreaking." But she is consoled by the fact that two novels are now in progress at the colony and six completed ones are currently in the hands of publishers...
From the time of its Liberal Party allegiance to its latter-day attachment to plain liberalism, the Guardian has been a political maverick, with a constitutional tendency to travel the left side of the political road. It opposed the Boer War, losing almost a quarter of its circulation and requiring its reporters to take police escorts to work; it fought for Irish home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed...
...thank God for Javits," exulted a Democratic leader, "because in a tight spot we can almost always count on him for another vote." But some Republican leaders grasped an essential point: a Representative is primarily an ambassador from his district. One time Javits came forward apologetically to explain a maverick vote to G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin. "Don't worry about it," said Martin. "Your job is to represent your district. That's what you're here for. We want you back...