Word: hardheadedness
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Some provocative facts are known. She has been engaged in a long, bitter, on-&-off feud with her cinemactress sister, Joan Fontaine (no one has figured out any specific reason for the ill-feeling, beyond the fact that both are high-strung young women and in a sense professional rivals...
Hardheaded and respected, he is one of the best bridge players in Mexico. As a teacher and cabinet minister combined, he stumped his country in Mexico's famed "each one teach one" literacy campaign (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946). "All good intentions," he said then, "must be bounded by two...
The U.S. delegation was doing what it could to bring UNESCO down to dry earth by backing practical Minister Torres Bodet's election, and by insisting that each division of the organization provide competent working plans for every project for which funds are required. But there was another hurdle...
Slow Going. But the Senators would find Little a hardheaded witness with a plausible story to tell. Little has never made a secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that...
"If You Don't Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near...