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...figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer's son and the urbanity of a successful international financier. He is clever enough to be self-deprecating at times, but he radiates such an enormous sense...
...suspenseful than for being tough, violent and fanatical. Most of the films are cheaply made and American--throwaway B-pictures produced from a collaboration of unruly talent. Nearly all of them fit into what critic Manny Farber has called "the termite range" of art, art which is characterized by stubborn, quirky, all but brainless energy...
...Brock Adams, the stubborn Secretary of Transportation. Carter has not yet settled on his successor, but his job will be filled temporarily by still another Southerner, W. Graham Claytor Jr., who was president of the Southern Railway Company until his appointment as Navy Secretary...
...team player" that Carter seems to prize. From his days as chairman of the Textron Corp., Miller has had a reputation for arguing hard and voicing stinging criticism behind closed doors; out in public, however, he joins ranks and forcefully presents the majority position. But Miller can also be stubborn. Blumenthal discovered this last spring when he tried to lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller balked; eventually Carter had to tell Blumenthal to ease up the pressure. Later Miller would sit calmly in his inordinately neat...
...preach that the responsibility of these mechanics is greater than that of a doctor," says Bob Olson, chairman of E-RAU's maintenance technology division, as he watches a class learning how to slip a stubborn rubber seal over a propeller flange. "Maybe they don't need all the training a doctor gets, but if you make one mistake, you might kill 273 people, not one." Says E-RAU Dean Chuck Williams: "It's a little different from working on an automobile or a truck. Students sense that the bolt they tighten down is going...