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Citing Cushing, President Pusey called him "A prince of his church, ever mindful of the needs of the least of his flock." Of Dillon, the President asserted: "Great-hearted, staunch-minded servant of order and justice in our country and the world...
...after a crash landing in a storm. Just to complicate matters, the rescue plane that picked up Raul to return him to Havana in triumph landed with another crash (jammed landing gear) near the capital. Looking more than ever like a beardless revolutionary beatnik, Raul was greeted by his staunch revolutionist wife Vilma...
Besides the transfer of parliamentary leadership and a possible functional change in the role of the Presidency, a general political limbering may occur. Since 1949 "the Old Man" has dominated the German scene, and has ruled with moderation and rigidity. He has been a staunch internationalist and has stressed the need for a firm Franco-German reconciliation. For better or worse this policy has borne fruit; France and Germany, linked institutionally in the Common Market, maintain also a tight policy alliance within NATO, and today appear as the chief exponents of rigidity vis-a-vis Anglo-American "flexibility...
...Provincialism here means something other than the narrowness and lack of cultural feeling which the term usually connotes. It is rather a posture of universality, created by the sense of being superlative in certain areas. New York City is in this way an example of provincialism, in that the staunch, chauvinistic New Yorker sees his city as a microcosm of the universe, and believes that everything important in the world is in some way embraced by New York. Similarly, Harvard's well-known complacency regarding its academic superiority affects its powers of self-evaluation: it can recognize and examine...
...happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss foe as New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson is much disturbed by his selection as Commerce Secretary...