Word: stolidness
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...nations still eye each other across a gulf nearly as impassable. In Alan Sillitoe, the largely silent second nation has found a brilliantly articulate spokesman. His people, rattling around in the urban slums of the English Midlands, have nothing in common with the world image of the Englishman: tall, stolid, well-spoken with a reverence for fair play and the law. In this new collection of nine short stories, as in his novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Sillitoe's characters are spry, gamy, wry-humored, and view the British policeman not as a kindly bobby...
...cluster of grim blacks holding up antigovernment placards, and up to Parliament to address a joint session. His speech had been drafted long ago in London to be the major effort of his trip. In the parliamentary dining room sat his expectant hearers, most of them bulky, stolid-looking Afrikaners...
...English-speaking service. At the altar was a U.S. Presbyterian minister who had returned for the occasion, after having been expelled from Champery 4½ years before for his "religious influence." The Rev. Francis Schaeffer's influence had consisted of providing a small Protestant oasis in the solid, stolid Roman Catholic bishopric of Valais. After serving at churches in St. Louis, Mo., Chester and Grove City, Pa., Philadelphia-born Presbyterian Schaeffer went to Champery in 1949 to help organize Sunday schools for continental Protestants. But as the only Protestant minister for miles around, he attracted too many adults...
...huff from the board of the multimillion-dollar Alleghany Corp. last week-and thus set the stage for what promises to be 1960's liveliest proxy scrap. Anita O'Keeffe Young,* still ambitious and aggressive at 60-plus, quit to express her opposition to cold, stolid Chairman Allan P. Kirby, 67. It was a bitter end to a 25-year association. Kirby's inherited Woolworth millions had bankrolled Bob Young from the 19305 onward, had put him in command of Alleghany, which controls the New York Central Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group...
...stubborn, stolid disregard by the steel industry and the Steelworkers for the general welfare, as they fought their private prestige battles, had already brought the U.S. to what the President called "a pretty pass." A blight of unemployment spread across the land as industrial plants slowed down or shut down for lack of steel. General Motors reported layoffs in St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Framingham, Mass., Janesville, Wis., Norwood, Ohio and Tarrytown, N.Y. International Harvester announced that it would have to lay off workers in Springfield, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms...