Word: hardheadedness
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> Pauline Maury, a French professor at a Western University, petite, immaculate, poised, a hardheaded, practical woman who lives in a svelte, modern household with abstract paintings on the walls, Filipino servants and her works on French literature.
After the committee vote last week, House Freshman Fulbright, unknown even to many of his colleagues, became momentarily the nation's most publicized lawmaker. A deluge of fan mail (10-to-1 in favor) descended on his desk. Interviewers discovered that the first-termer from Fayetteville was young (38...
Surprise Choice. Tall, stern Lord Linlithgow, whose record term (seven and a half years) as Viceroy expires in October, was fishing near Simla in the cool fragrance of the Himalayan hills when Wavell's appointment was announced. Down in the plains, where the hot summer wind, the loo, pushed...
This is the vision of short, hardheaded, vigorous Bror Gustave Dahlberg (62), president of Celotex Corp. No idle dreamer, artist's son Dahlberg promoted the original company which developed an insulating board out of a waste product (sugar cane stalks after the juice is squeezed out) and sold these...
Alarmed by this breach of the Union's rigid taboos, Parliament stood ready to forbid further property acquisitions by non-whites in Natal. Behind the measure stood hardheaded, international-minded Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Said he: Durban must remain a "white city," rich Indians should invest in war...