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...Stickler. Many people shrug off the lady Senator's declaration as something frivolously feminine. They don't know Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning...
...stickler for detail, which sometimes made him seem petty. He was cautious about social entanglements, which made him seem cold. Despite five years as President Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Marshall politely rebuffed F.D.R.'s attempts to be amiable, visited Hyde Park for the first time to attend Roosevelt's funeral. Even his kindness and humor were touched with irony. After a gracious hospital visit to the daughter of a friend, he wrote: "I round your company of fish, turtles and guppies quite fascinating-much more attractive than the average group I meet socially...
...copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler for punctuality. At home in Bel Air, he collects shotguns and rifles, which he uses on Jeep trips across the California countryside in search of game birds...
...midnight." Per Jacobsson, international monetary expert, spent most of his life trying to get men and nations to face the truth before midnight-the cold, hard truth of fiscal discipline. With a rare talent for understanding politics as well as economics, he was a master of compromise-and a stickler for principle. When France's franc was faltering, he told the imperious Charles de Gaulle: "Mon général, you spoke about restoring the esteem of France. I do not think there will ever be esteem for a country that has a bad currency." When he died...
...electronic-brain control system, which scans traffic flow by radar and switches street signals accordingly. Barnes likes well-marked lanes. When he wants one, he creates it right away with improvised dividers made out of used paint cans; markings and concrete follow later on. He is also a stickler for overhead traffic signals for every lane (and not just every street corner...