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...John Adams would have been a 'character' at any time or in any part of the world...The information in the diary may in the end be judged secondary to its picture of a remarkable human being--self-important, impetuous, pugnacious, tormented by self-doubts and yet stubborn to the point of mulishness, vain, jealous, and suspicious almost to the point of paranoia; and yet at the same time deeply affectionate and warmhearted, 'as sociable as any Marblehead man,' irrepressibly humorous, passionately devoted all his life to the welfare of his country, and as courageous a diplomat as his country...
...Sweden, rested amid a sea of fresh flowers in St. Andrews' United Church of Ndola. Four sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew...
...five years-and that was before last week's big flurry. Cock-a-hoop over his cosmonauts, a little miffed perhaps that the rest of the world was not giving him what he regarded as his due, and possibly feeling a little frustrated over the West's stubborn resistance on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev was in a real rocket-banging tantrum...
...closing notice was an exasperated end to a protracted and angry quarrel, beginning last April, between the Met's stubborn manager Rudolf Bing and the equally stubborn negotiating committee representing the Met's 92-man orchestra. The subject was money. Last season the Met's musicians, all members of famed Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians, were paid $170 a week per man for the 25-week season-a figure that has gone up only $11 in the past eight years. This is $10 less than New York Philharmonic musicians get for a far shorter...
Maytag has held its own because of the stubborn individualism of its management, headed for the past 24 years by Frederick Louis Maytag II, 50, grandson of the founder. Items...