Word: hardheadedness
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Minus a Tentacle. 1965's biggest winners were those who capitalized on this hardheaded attitude. "There is no vote in this city which can be taken for granted," concluded Republican Congressman John V. Lindsay after New York's overwhelmingly Democratic voters elected him mayor (see cover story). His...
Settlers' Choice. Under hardheaded commercial management, Rhodesia quickly flourished. Cheap labor was provided by a hut tax, which forced the penniless natives to go to work for the settlers to pay it. But the settlers worked beside them in the fields and gradually adopted a paternal feeling toward them...
Suleyman Demirel, 41, is a hardheaded peasant's son, a construction engineer who once worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, later amassed a private fortune as an Ankara contractor. He inherited the party and prestige of Turkey's slain strongman, Adnan Menderes, and adroitly harnessed the demirkirat...
First Lesson. "I am a freak," Motherwell confesses. "I didn't start painting seriously until I was 25." The son of a banker, Motherwell was born in Washington, went to Stanford, Harvard Graduate School, the University of Grenoble, and Oxford in pursuit of a respectable Ph.D. before showing up...
One of the basic maxims of space travel, says Flight Director Chris Kraft, is: "If you don't know what to do, don't do anything." Then, if the problem does not correct itself, there is almost always time enough to take remedial action−as there was...