Word: mavericks
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...changes in taxes and government spending can stabilize business cycles. The philosophy of Keynes, who died in 1946, has dominated the economic policies of industrial nations since World War II. Today's prevailing belief, however, is a hybrid; most economists now consider themselves "Friedmanesque Keynesians." Having risen from maverick to messiah, Friedman ranks with Walter Heller and John Kenneth Galbraith as one of the most influential U.S. economists of the era. Heller, who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Kennedy, has whimsically classified Friedman's supporters: "Some are Friedmanly, some Friedmanian, some Friedmanesque, some
...American Motors Corp. plant in Kenosha, Wis., which was settled last week, cost A.M.C. more than 30,000 cars. Another strike at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Mich., has reduced General Motors' production by 4,375 cars a week, for nine weeks so far. Ford's new Maverick is selling at the rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year not of the compact but of the intermediate-size car-the first year that sales of intermediates will equal...
...amateurs like the Beatles invariably manage to surpass them all. Thus in the modern rock and roll scene there are, to name only a few, groups like the Who. with their titanic instrumental drive; or groups of the structural and textural subtlety of Traffic and Procul Harum: or maverick musical virtuosos like Laura Nyro and Jimi Hendrix-or, of course. the Rolling Stones, absolute masters of rock and roll rhythms of the rock and roll temperament...
...Evolution of Man and Society (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London), the latest book by Cyril Dean Darlington, 65, a British geneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society and Sherardian Professor of Botany at Oxford. None of these academic credentials describe Darlington's true vocation. He is an intellectual maverick, dedicated to setting the scientific Establishment on its ear. His new book is the culmination of the author's long assault on the complacent conviction, still defended by many social scientists, that man represents a kind of dead end on the evolutionary trail: a resplendent terminal species that...
Harrington, whose father was mayor of Salem, is an outspoken maverick whose independence is equaled by his ambition. Before the election was won, he was already talking of his next target: taking on the popular Ed Brooke for Senator...