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Gerald Ford is a courageous and stubborn man who resents any attempt to intimidate him. So despite the two attempts upon his life within 17 days, the President once again left the secure confines of the White House to tour the U.S. "I can only say that two-way communication with my friends and fellow Americans is for me an essential part of doing the job properly," he told an audience in Chicago. "I intend to keep my communications open, not in any foolhardy spirit, but by every prudent and practical means...
...public posture, Shanker appears to be a dogged, stubborn defender of what he deems to be right. In private, he is different: "Because of the strikes," says Tom Kahn, a Meany assistant, "Al has been portrayed as power-hungry and overly aggressive. Personally, he's a shy, intellectual type." Shanker reads voraciously and likes to consider himself close in political attitude to the moderate liberalism of Commentary and Public Interest. In reflective moments, he professes to wonder why he got into the union presidency at all. "I never sought this career," he says, "I backed into it. I like...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...
...detachment gate. The first film was barely finished when a strong earthquake, 7.3 on the magnitude scale, occurred. Lightning flashed and a great noise like thunder came from the earth. Many houses were destroyed at once. Of the 2,000 people in the commune, only the 'stubborn ones,' who ignored the mobilization order, were wounded or killed by the earthquake. All the others were safe and uninjured; not even one head of livestock was lost...
...town with a reputation as the tough-minded, hard-driving archbishop who had quickly raised millions of dollars for parochial-school expansion in Kansas City, Mo., and later pushed through the racial integration of Roman Catholic schools in New Orleans. Lately the brass bands have been silent. The same stubborn streak that won Cody his early acclaim gradually worked against him in the nation's biggest archdiocese, which has 2.5 million parishioners...