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...France, where age will be served, the elderly dominate business. One out of every four French companypresidents is 65 or older. One-third of the board members in France's 40 largest firms are past 70. And young executives grouse that their advancement is blocked by stubborn...
...Faith. Riccardo and Cafiero inherited some staggering headaches. Costs were high. Some of Chrysler's cars impressed consumers as unimaginatively styled, and quality control had slipped. Worst of all, Chrysler was initially left behind by the market swing to small cars because it had placed an even more stubborn faith than G.M. or Ford in the idea that the American motorist's love for big cars would last forever. During the 1969 model year, only one of its eight plants could produce the compacts...
...Southerner's stubborn belief in himself and his white heritage of independence and toughness that accounts for his resistance to the personal misery of the blues. His country music looks to social explanations for unhappiness. In tedious love affairs, prisons, or truck-cabs Southern whites feel most intensely the emptiness of their lives. Rodgers sang...
...other men who served under John Kennedy left Washington years ago, iridescent with the celebrity of Camelot, and found a measure of fortune. Dean Rusk stayed on to work for Lyndon Johnson. Rusk was never exactly part of the New Frontier's clan anyway; he was taciturn, stubborn, spartan, undeniably intelligent, distrustful of personal publicity, given to seven-day work weeks at the State Department...
...stamp out black-marketeering in the collectives in Vinh Phuc province, Party Theoretician Truong Chinh lamented that "corruption still remains, just like weeds that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...