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...intensify its attacks. It's madness to believe that it would do anything else." Even Moslem sympathizers were disappointed by the F.L.N.'s rejection of De Gaulle's offer of a ceasefire. If the talks at Evian end in a stalemate, the F.L.N.'s stubborn decision to keep fighting may backfire...
...chest. The youngster dropped his bat, staggered backward, collapsed in the arms of Umpire Al Millham. and died. Improbably, the mild impact had stopped Barry's heart. Pitcher Hanes collapsed in hysterics. But like so many Little League parents, grief-stricken Jack Babcock showed a stubborn concern for the game. "I hope this doesn't curtail Little League ball," said Babcock. "Barry wouldn't want that. He loved baseball more than anything in life...
...stubborn search for an explanation, the bureau keeps a dozen airplanes on duty. Last week its weather squadron was near Oklahoma City, right in Tornado Alley, and whenever thunder threatened, a highflying, camera-laden U2* soared far above the thunderheads. Supersonic jets, laden with instruments, darted through the fringe of the clouds. Even far from the core they bounced suddenly from 75 m.p.h. updrafts to downdrafts moving just as fast. At the center of a storm, winds of 350 m.p.h. were not uncommon...
...emotional first person poems have few lines which tempt the reader to stop and read them over again aloud. His persistent awkwardness in phrasing is well illustrated by the following passage from Song of a Traveller: Spring, which in Philadelphia is wild./Is not in Boston yet. Like a stubborn child/Who will not curtsey to the lady she thinks a witch,/Spring cowers in Boston's doorway to stamp and bitch...
...sweating delegates and aides were gaveled to order by President Joseph Kasavubu. But order is not easy to come by in the Congo. The talks had hardly begun before Katanga's proud, stubborn Moise Tshombe exploded with wrath at a deal that Kasavubu had made with Tshombe's archenemy, the U.N. The deal: to help clear foreign military advisers-including Tshombe's-from Congo soil...