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Chief architect of Lee's defeat was Utah's senior Senator, Arthur V. Watkins, who has feuded with Maverick Lee because of the latter's zany antics in opposing aid for public education, the federal income tax, and the Eisenhower Administration. Watkins denounced Lee as "the most disruptive influence in the whole Republican Party." If Kingmaker Watkins is successful in smoothing the ruffled feathers of Lee's followers by November, Clyde should win handily over Democratic Nominee Lorenzo Clark Romney in nominally Republican Utah...
Just about the only competitor who stayefl out of the argument was Texan Williim T. Waggoner, representing the Seattle Yacht Club. When the last heat started, he thought he had the race in the bag. His Maverick was not doing well, but his Shanty I was running in front. Suddenly it belched to a crawl-out of the race with a broken supercharger. Heir to a $300 million cattle-and-oil fortune, Bill Waggoner had suddenly run out of the one element of hydroplane racing that is not for sale: luck. "A man has to be a goddamn fool...
Always something of a maverick-he was the only Jew among top Soviet leaders to survive the purges-Kaganovich won Stalin's approval for his loyalty and toughness and got one top job after another. He played an important role in the party purges, was put in charge of the construction of the famed Moscow Metro and finally he became czar of Russia's railroads, a job that he pursued with such vigor during World War II that he instituted the death penalty for failure to make trains run on time. With responsibilities came rewards: his home town...
...Without the proper tie, the American intellectual is hard to identify. He does not gravitate to any one city, nor does he bear the stamp of any particular university or have his roots in any particular country. He may be a maverick genius like Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, or a state Supreme Court chief justice who, like New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, especially has devoted his talents to improving the courts. He may be doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what...
...Russians. The platoon has small faith in its chances, but believes mesmerically in Corporal Steiner, who has assumed command from his wounded sergeant. Steiner is one of those incurably homeless men to whom gunpowder is oxygen, and war is a kind of inner peace. A maverick with a tongue like barbed wire, he is sloppy, insolent and broody, but a soldier's soldier when it counts, and a Svengali...