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...York City, where Bert Powers of the International Typographical Union was able to silence Manhattan dailies for 114 days (TIME cover, ' March 1, 1963), Detroit's newspaper strike was a measure of the power of one stubborn man. Only one other union joined Frazee's walkout: the paper and plate handlers' union. The other twelve newspaper unions in Detroit, having long since signed new contracts, ; are fretting to get back to work...
...defeated whites clung to the past when Mississippi had been one of the richest states in the Union and Jefferson Davis the rebel President. They were scared because they felt that they were few and the Negroes myriad; they were stubborn because only by convincing themselves that the Negro was somehow inferior, like a pet or a horse, could they justify their long crime of refusing to recognize him as an equal human being; they were violent, partly from the strain of sustaining this myth, partly from fear that if the myth was once cracked, at any point...
Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's late chief, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger, prefers the nickname Minnie. Her fiancé, Winston Spencer Churchill, 23, on the other hand, strenuously resists Winnie, and as anyone who has tangled with his grandfather can testify, Churchills are stubborn. Randolph's Oxford-educated son has other family traits: 1) a fondness for travel and journalism that last year sent him on a four-month tour of 40 African and Middle Eastern countries, will result in a book, First Journey, due in the U.S. in January, 2) freckles...
...blazer, and plunked down in front of a TV set-to watch Palmer birdie the last two holes and win. Things certainly went from bad to worse after that. He was plagued by a series of bizarre physical ailments: a pinched nerve that paralyzed half his chest, a stubborn virus infection, a hand injury, an automobile accident. In the next four years Venturi won only one minor tournament, and his official earnings last year amounted to exactly $3,848.33. There was a brief flurry of interest when he finished third in the Thunderbird Classic in early June. But last week...
...Hooly Monke. While medieval monasteries waxed rich in land holdings, Bury St. Edmunds had fallen deeply into debt to Jewish moneylenders at the end of the 12th century. Then a strong, stubborn monk, appropriately named Samson, became abbot shortly after a young boy was found murdered. The Jews were blamed. Eight years later 57 Jews were massacred in the town. Samson got the King to expel the Jews from Bury St. Edmunds, and shortly cleared the abbey's debt, wresting back the glory that the monastery once enjoyed...