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...whom the bell tolls in and around Hickory Corners, Mich. There is no toll at all for 40 stubborn households. When telephone rates jumped a hefty 54% almost a year ago, subscribers protested by having their phones disconnected. A court upheld the new rates, and telephone company officials have refused to compromise...
...estimated 3 million cases a year in the U.S. alone and perhaps 100 million worldwide-doctors have usually been able to treat it effectively and inexpensively with a large dose of penicillin. In recent years some gonococci strains with a measure of resistance had emerged, but even those stubborn bacteria eventually succumbed to still bigger dosages of the antibiotic. Not the new strains; for the first time, gonococci are figuratively gobbling up penicillin. Their secret weapon: an enzyme called penicillinase ("penicillin destroyer") that breaks apart the antibiotic...
...such a distortion has taken place. First, Faculty members have never shown a wide-spread willingness to teach the type of basic introductory courses the General Education program originally envisioned. Second, students have consistently pressured administrators to offer a program of free choice. They have shown a stubborn resistance to requirements that run counter to their academic interests. If anything, the program now is a vivid demonstration that students favor a freely elective system that gives them the option to choose as many of their 32 electives as possible...
...STRIKE is over at Cambion, but the struggle between union workers and management continues. Faced with the stubborn refusal of Cambion to negotiate, the leadership of C.U.E. Local 262 realized its position was hopeless and so recommended that the rank and file vote to end the seven-month-old strike. The move was designed to preserve the union at the plant, at a time when about 100 of the original 250 workers who went on strike last April had been forced to find other jobs and another 35 former strikers had crossed picket lines to report to work...
...genuine, yet there is a mean streak in him. The blue eyes can turn cold, and his ready tongue can lacerate a foe. When he cools off, he often apologizes. Whether it is out of Christian charity or practical considerations is unclear. Carter is supremely ambitious, self-confident and stubborn ?qualities that are both helpful and potentially divisive in a President. Going with Carter is clearly a greater gamble. His supporters would claim that to risk nothing is also to gain nothing...