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...institutional facilities than any Governor before him. Despite chronic unemployment in the mining industry, Colorado's employment is at an alltime high. An aggressive McNichols industrial program last year gained for the state 50 new commercial plants, expansion of 32 others. But Steve McNichols is also a very stubborn fellow-and this fact has made him a lot of enemies. To carry out his program, he raised state income taxes. He feuded with his Democratic state legislature on minor matters. For example, the legislature-for idiotic reasons-refused to accept a gift from the fabulously rich (sugar and cement...
Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and Herbert V. Kohler, head of Kohler Co., one of the nation's biggest manufacturers of plumbing fixtures, are two stubborn men. In April 1954, Reuther's U.A.W. walked out of the Kohler plant in Sheboygan, Wis. Last week, after fighting it out for 8½ years in the longest and one of the most bitter strikes in U.S. history, the two antagonists finally reached a settlement...
...that the Administration has failed so far to point out convincingly that the reasons for foreign assistance to one country or another are highly specific. Principally the economic aid program wants to develop technocratic and fairly apolitical classes to supplant, gradually and delicately, the frequently irresponsible politicians and stubborn elites that now control poor countries. At the same time it must use the existing governing classes to stabilize economies to make savings and investment possible...
...inability to ram his legislative program through a stubborn Congress, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond summed up: "There is no doubt in my mind that Senator Kennedy was absolutely sincere in telling the American people in the 1960 campaign that if they would elect a Democratic President and give leadership to a Democratic Congress, all would go well. And he was absolutely wrong...
...novel triumphs because it is a beautifully rendered love story and not a tract on alcoholism. More important than the man's falls from the wagon are his stubborn returns to sobriety and his fierce determination to be worthy of the woman and himself. He fails ultimately, going down again and again before the woman finally gives up her futile attempts at rescue. But only hope has faded; love has not. "He's like a child." she thinks at the end, watching the deterioration of his mind and body. But she adds: "If you have a child whose...