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...Headstrong and independent, risk takers are rebels with a cause-themselves. William F.X. Grubb, 37, left Atari, the successful manufacturer of home video equipment, and formed Imagic, which makes video game cartridges and hopes to have sales of $25 million or more this fiscal year. Says he: "Entrepreneurs want to be able to test their abilities and see how far they can go. It's the ultimate report card." That same pioneering spirit can make these businessmen hard to live with. Many are workaholics who lock themselves up in their offices for long stretches and have little tolerance...
...years of his benign companionship, his widow Nell doubts her ability to go it alone: "He protected me from so much ... from my harshest judgments of myself as well as of others." Strickland's death also catches his two daughters at awkward points in their lives. Cate, headstrong and twice divorced, is approaching her 40th birthday and teaching English at a small college in Iowa; like her previous school in New Hampshire, this one too seems on the verge of closing for lack of funds. And Lydia, the prim younger daughter and mother of two teen-age sons...
...year-old Cambridge native and former resident of public housing emphasizes that "I'm not headstrong on any issue," including opposition to controls on condominium conversion. "If it turns out that poor and elderly are getting thrown out" because of condominium development, "I could be flexible," he says...
...dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many horror tales, the Haunting of M revolves around a headstrong heroine and a vengeful ghost...
...afraid of the consequences facing them. We all fell into the simplicity of doing away with subversion at any cost, and now we are paying the price." The Argentine military is in the isolated position that the country's foremost writer, Jorge Luis Borges, once described as the headstrong and independent role of all Argentines: "patriots without countrymen." Sadly, Argentina remains a country with far less need of patriots than of countrymen with a common cause. -By George Russell. Reported by William McWhirter/Buenos Aires