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...that this may be so. When the unions throttled the city's two newspaper voices, they clearly miscalculated management's means−and wil−to resist. The papers simply refused to cave in. In dealing with the holdout Teamsters, the Star and Tribune proved just as stubborn as Hoffa...
Largely mediated by Lord Taylor, the settlement let each side claim moral victory. The government won the doctors' agreement to North America's first comprehensive, tax-supported state medical insurance plan. But by their stubborn fight, the doctors won modifications in the plan removing what they had feared as political controls over the practice of medicine. In the key concessions, Saskatchewan's Premier Woodrow Lloyd made clear that the doctors could practice inside or outside the scheme, agreed to let the province's two major doctor-operated voluntary insurance plans continue in business, and expanded...
...Stubborn Determination. Adenauer remains in remarkable health. He works from 12 to 15 hours a day, has the clear eyes and steady hand that many a younger man has lost. During a recent two-hour conversation with a U.S. visitor, Adenauer spoke with machine-gun speed and great animation, alertly stopped the interpreter when he glossed a point by correcting him in both German and English...
Though Van der Beugel will probably get the money, his appeal is KLM's biggest break yet with its tradition of stubborn independence. An even greater break may be in the making. Four years ago, the principal Common Market airlines-Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia and Belgium's Sabena-began to discuss pooling of their resources in a European Air Union in order to compete more effectively with Pan Am, TWA, and other international lines. KLM walked out after the first meetings in disgust at its proposed share of the combined revenues. But Dutch parliamentarians are unlikely...
Three times since 1958, the skivvy-suited male stars of U.S. track and field have challenged Russia's best in dual meets. Three times, by scores of 126-109, 127-108 and 124-111, the Russian bear has taken a skinning. Still the stubborn Russians come back for more. Fortnight ago at the National A.A.U. championships in Walnut, Calif., more than 400 of them turned out to battle for berths on the U.S. men's squad that tuned up against Poland this week, will go on to meet Russia later this month in Palo Alto...