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...state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity I get for being a commuter...
...Wolves have been pushed around,'' says Biologist C. Gordon Fredine of the National Park Service. "People resent them...
...Wolves resent people, too, occasionally eating them down to their boots. Result: U.S. wolves have been all but exterminated by resentful U.S. people. But Biologist Fredine reports that a study being conducted on Lake Superior's Isle Royale by the Park Service and Purdue University shows that wolves serve a useful purpose in the balance of nature...
...months ago, for example, the President, referring at a dinner party to the series of court decisions overturning federal convictions in security cases, shook his head, saying: "I don't understand what the court is doing in some of these decisions." For his part Earl Warren could only resent the President's steadfast refusal to express his approval of the court's 1954 school-desegregation decision-although the President sent troops to Little Rock to back...