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...unitarians" won at the conference, and Tshombe lost; but even as he packed for the trip home, the stubborn Katangese was muttering a word that later would echo far: Secession...
...three weeks a power struggle had raged over who should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...years, The New Yorker Magazine has been either fat enough or finicky enough to indulge its stubborn allergy to Madison Avenue exaggeration in advertising. It takes such a stringent view of overstatement that it once rejected a testimonial touting a how-to-golf pamphlet which offered the duffer the utterly unnecessary suggestion that he "stay out of traps." Since Arnold Palmer had just lost the Masters tournament by landing in a trap, The New Yorker sent the copy back to the agency, along with the advice that the agency might consider sending Palmer a copy of the book...
...pagan in inspiration. Even today the seasonal exchange of gifts in many lands is made on Twelfth Night (when the Magi reached Bethlehem) or on New Year's Day. Still the early symbols-the pre-Christian gift giving, the evergreen as a mark of enduring life-became stubborn concomitants of the Christmas observance...
Bankroll for Expansion. Historically, corporate profits in the U.S. rise as employment does. At present, with the unemployment rate at a stubborn 6.8%, corporate earnings are running about 9% of the gross national product. Government economists figure the rate could jump to 10% if management, encouraged by the prospect of rosier earnings, decided to step up production enough that it must significantly increase hiring. If the Administration prediction of a $565 billion G.N.P. by next June is borne out, that would mean an annual corporate profit rate of $56 to $57 billion. And with that much money in its pockets...