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...want the President to be flexible, pragmatic, capable of compromise-also firm, decisive, principled. Carter was hurt by zigzags. Reagan advisers are said to worry about their man being "Carterized" if he compromises too readily. Conversely, many Republican Congressmen worry about his being "mulish." This is a tough one to win. The President should be able to admit error to himself, once in a while out loud. Theoretically, the public confessions could become too frequent, but that is not a real-life danger...
...huge German American into an early and energetic Gray Pantherhood. This is not the Carlo Reinhart of Crazy in Berlin (1958), Reinhart in Love (1962) and Vital Parts (1970). He has been divorced from the vituperous Genevieve-his wife of 22 years-for a decade. His son Blaine, a mulish, asexual hippie ten years ago, is now a three-piece materialist; and blubbery, myopic Daughter Winona has been transformed into an anorectic fashion model. In the past, the world had always been a bit too speedy for Reinhart. He survived marital and fiscal disasters by waddling through the door...
Ball's mulish and ruthless uses of power are legend. Rather than bend to union demands in 1963, he took a nine-year strike on the Florida East Coast Railway. He ran the line with scab labor, and managers trimmed featherbedded jobs and produced the road's first profits since World War II. Another time, when Ball decided that the taxes of several Florida counties were too high, he simply paid half the bill; only Dade County had the temerity to sue for the rest...
...element that made him different?the innocence of the outsider, the incorruptibility of the unentrenched. That difference was his major hold on the American people." Other bureaus saw that hold slipping as well. From Chicago, Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate reported that Carter had lost credibility because of his "mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide...
...relaxation. At Long Wharf I have New York exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season, it has a mulish deficit of $400,000. Still, Brown, an optimist, sees a trend being reversed. "Two successful theaters have made New Haven as a theater town. Why, people here are more inclined to see a play than a film. It's an American miracle!" ∙Gina Mallet