Word: mavericks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mavericks among us always have a way of standing out from the rest of the crowd. Whether we react with ridicule or quiet admiration, we can rarely ignore them. The story of Harold L. Humes Jr. '54 has all the features commonly associated with the life of a maverick, a man who insists on swimming upstream. He has unorthodox theories, an unusual physical appearance, and has often been the focus of sensational charges. But his case has failed to attract the kind of interest usually directed toward men of his temper. It is even more difficult to account...
Fifty-one-year-old Humes definitely has the look of a maverick. Chain-smoking as he explains his case in the kitchen of his modest residence, Humes's craggy face and grizzled beard call to mind the image of what a long-haired Ernest Hemingway in his later years might have looked like if he had been alive and become a flower child in the late '60's. Humes's biography reads like the resume of a dabbling jack-of-all-trades. After completing at Harvard an undergraduate education that began at MIT, Humes threw himself into literary pursuits...
...Stone can speak as well as he can write, he's worth hearing. He'll present "A Maverick's View of Washington Politics," this Sunday at the Ford Hall Forum, in Alumni Auditorium at Northeastern, 360 Huntington Ave. in Boston. Stone will speak at 8 p.m. The doors open to members at 7, and to the public, who will be admitted free if seats remain after members have entered...
Where is Bond now, ten years later? He still appears on talk shows and at other engagements. He's still plugging in the state legislature, operating--now as a state senator--out of an office in the basement of his mother's house. And he hasn't lost his maverick style: Bond bitterly opposed Carter's nomination during the primaries. He's also retained his ties to the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the '60s. He helped found the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee by chairing two Southern activist groups...
...most successful Supported Work project is the $4.3 million Maverick Corp., which runs a tire-recapping operation in Hartford, Conn. Maverick employs 350 ghetto dwellers, including 100 people age 17 to 20. Typically, a worker is offered $2.50 an hour, and told that whoever shows up punctually will get $2.67 instead. Anyone who is so much as one minute late loses the bonus for the entire week.'" Morale is high, and last year 85 workers moved on to private jobs. Says Maverick President Dan MacKinnon: "Of that group, 25% have lost their jobs. That doesn't make me feel very...