Word: hardheadedness
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At first, hardheaded Marshal Tito reacted with comparative mildness. The Anglo-American plan was, in fact, almost identical to one the British say Tito approved privately less than a year ago in talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, except that the new plan does not try to freeze the division...
The Man from the Machine. "I am a politician," Taft once declared unabashedly. In a nation which always distrusts and sometimes despises politicians (while handing the responsibility of government over to them), it was an unusual admission, made without any qualification. Taft was a technician of government, a lawmaker, a...
As U.S. foreign-aid programs diminish, many a hardheaded U.S. businessman has begun to proclaim that free-world nations must be allowed to sell more goods in U.S. markets. On Capitol Hill, however, hostility to this point of view has been vocal and widespread. Gloomy free-traders even predicted that...
Many denominations convene each year; the hardheaded, Bible-centered Lutherans of the Missouri Synod (membership: almost 2,000,000) meet only once in three years, and do a thorough job of it then. Last week they assembled in Houston for ten days of reports and plans.
Nationally, the titular head of the party is Adlai Stevenson. But for more than three months. Stevenson has been jaunting around the world, keeping in touch with national headquarters only through hastily squiggled notes on postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with...