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Bowing to the stubborn peasants, Gomulka still permits 87% of the farmers to remain outside the collectives, though his regime is pushing hard for voluntary membership in agricultural "circles," a modified form of collectivization...
...more than two decades, Pan American World Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. have brawled through the courts and before the Civil Aeronautics Board over the upbringing of their jointly owned offspring. Pan American-Grace Airways. Reason: Pan Am's stubborn determination to prevent Panagra, which is based in the Canal Zone, from acquiring a direct air route into...
...unanswered question was how Hassan would rule. His father was a benevolent autocrat who had authorized a "consultative" assembly in 1956 but had never permitted national elections. He chose his own Premiers, who were responsible only to him. But he was hailed as the man who'se stubborn resistance wrested Moroccan independence from the French, widely admired as a de voted family man, revered by the devout as the spiritual head of the Malikite Sunni Moslems...
Behind a rather placid-seeming, professorial surface, Walter Heller seethes with drive and energy. In 1955, working on economic messages and policy papers for Governor Freeman atop a heavy academic load, Heller developed a stubborn case of rheumatic fever. Hospitalized for six months, he had a dictating machine set up beside his bed and kept right on working. He still takes a penicillin pill every morning to prevent a recurrence. For recreation back home in Minnesota, Heller used to go into the backyard and chop firewood for hours...
...personality of a blunt instrument (TIME Cover, July 7, 1958), Steve Kennedy had to run an understaffed, underpaid army of 24,000 men, many of them good, some of them not, most of them as contentious as only a New Yorker -and a uniformed one at that-can be. Stubborn, straight as a pistol shot, he worked relentlessly for 5½ years to instill honesty, discipline and a sense of pride in New York's Finest, and along the way became just about the city's best police boss since Teddy Roosevelt stalked the night streets rooting...