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...point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became the tenth South Carolinian governor from Edgefield County...
...Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...Others have conjectured that a good-sized planet may once have revolved in the orbit (between Mars and Jupiter) now cluttered with little asteroids. When the planet broke up (for an unknown reason), the bigger chunks became asteroids; some of the smaller remains stampeded around the solar system as maverick meteors...
...maverick-minded Republican did come up with another idea. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders recommended rationing of meat. "The price of meat is the keystone of the whole process of spiraling," he said. He thought rationing would help keep down the price without direct price control by keeping "demand in line." He was not optimistic. But he put it forward anyhow-"to see if anybody has got a better idea...
...Maverick in a Trap. Last week, 250 students organized a torchlight parade, marched to Professor Pancho's house to say goodbye. The university's respected Historian Walter Prescott Webb called upon Painter to rehire Dobie. "The truth of the matter," said he, "is that Mr. Dobie has walked with stubborn unconcern into a trap...