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MOST OF THE TIME, Fonda portrays the writer just as one might envision the temperamental chain smoker. Occasionally, however, Hellman's stubborn scowls become Fonda's cute pouts and Robards's subtle understatements make Fonda seem even shriller. Fonda has her moments of glory, though, particularly as she confronts Broadway sycophants and awaits Hammett's judgments on her work, revealing the underlying dependence upon the older man she spent so much of her energy denying...
...Edward Ball, the debate about extending the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 (see cover story page 18) must seem like a plentiful waste of time. A peppery 89, Ball is a monumentally stubborn, bourbon-sipping, union-busting, Government-fighting apostle of 19th century free enterprise. As senior trustee of the estate of the late chemical heir Alfred I. du Pont, he regularly puts in a full, often tumultuous work week managing one of the nation's greatest private treasuries. Operating out of a spartan office in Jacksonville, Fla., the 5-ft. 5-in. entrepreneur has long been...
...could give. The press conference was a moving, human performance. Yet, by insisting so vehemently that all of the many sharp criticisms of Lance's manipulations as a go-go Georgia banker had "been proven false and without foundation," Carter displayed a surprisingly irrational and stubborn refusal to face facts adverse to his friend and to his own reputation for cool judgment and high ethics...
...hell of a decision. Furious, Ronnie exiled the stubborn boy of 16 to the University of Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
Worse news soon came from Johannesburg, 300 miles inland. A three-year-old boy admitted to Baragwanath Hospital for heart surgery had his operation postponed for five weeks until he was cured of a stubborn case of pneumonia. But after surgery he again developed pneumonia, and analysis of the guilty bacteria proved them to be similar to those identified in Durban. They were astonishingly resistant to penicillin and also to many newer antibiotics. In the boy's case, the hardy new pneumococci finally succumbed to combined doses of rifampin and fusidic acid, but doctors noted that he was already...