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...Because the patient looks attentive and friendly, and perhaps tries to nod, they say. 'Oh, he understands everything, but he just won't talk-he's stubborn.' Then they tell us how he reads the newspapers...
...rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza stood bolt upright in the stirrups, desperately trying to hold the stubborn colt back. It was a losing fight...
...Impetus. Birmingham's Negroes for years were unable to get together. Until recently, their only voice seemed to be that of Fred Shuttlesworth, now 40, a Baptist minister whose stubborn courage was sometimes mitigated by his fondness for melodrama. Shuttlesworth threw himself against Birmingham's segregation barriers with predictable results: he has been arrested 20 times since 1958, suffered four bad beatings, and his home has been bombed. Now the pastor of a Cincinnati church, Shuttlesworth still spends much of his time in Birmingham, where he is currently involved in 27 court cases...
...Champ. Royboy's loud and stubborn convictions were shaped in a career that is typical of yesterday's Africa. He was born in 1907 in a seedy flophouse in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, run by his parents. Michael and Leah Welensky. A huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series...
Ever since, the Kremlin has backed away from its stubborn resistance to "bourgeois" Western tastes in clothes, jazz and mating rites. The regime has yielded to youth's demands for its own distinctive styles, is actually manufacturing blue jeans for the first time. For the Jet Set, Moscow's vast GUM department store has a serviceable facsimile of an inexpensive, tight-trousered Italian man's suit for $150 ; it also sells spiked heels ($55), which even the best-heeled Muscovite miss often totes to parties in a paper...