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Promoting the Cause. As second-in-command of North Viet Nam's team. Thuy was a stubborn, wily opponent to U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman at Geneva in 1961-62 for 15 wearying months of bombast and bargaining over Laos. In Paris he can be counted on to be an equally abrasive advocate, doing his best to erode American stamina with long-winded tirades and propaganda points before the negotiators get down to substantive issues...
Kent Parrot and Terry Oxford also needed three sets to subdue their stubborn opponents. Senior Bo Jones was Harvard's only loser, dropping a tight three-set match at number six. Sophomore Larry Terrell and Captain Jose Gonzales scored decisive singles wins...
...official. "If we played it their way, we would suggest Taipei." Moreover, the North Vietnamese-and the Russians-did their best to capitalize on Johnson's repeated statements that he would send U.S. representatives "anywhere, any time," to "any spot on this earth." Accusing the U.S. of a "stubborn and perfidious attitude," Hanoi at week's end rejected as "not convenient" all the sites suggested by Washington...
Where reform is concerned, Winship's style is anything but flashy. He represents the sound citizen with a stubborn faith in the system and in American ideals. "I'm not shouting from rooftops to tell people to throw bricks," he says. "I'm old-fashioned enough to think that's not the best way of getting political action." Characteristically, he proposes as solutions to the problem of urban unrest "much much more money" from the federal government and greater sacrifice from the business community...
Whipple's tampering with the editorial page has occasionally met with opposition. Since 1880, the lead editorials in the Globehave always been signed "Uncle Dudley." When Whipple decided to remove the embarrassing signature three years ago, he came up against stubborn staff resistance. Members of the staff argued that "people always talked about 'what Uncle Dudley said.'" Whipple went ahead and removed it. He adds parenthetically that he received only one letter after it was removed: "I'm glad you killed off Uncle Dudley--he was a nigger lover...