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...tense, exciting journalism. Infantrymen have changed little: a Greek footslogger grumbles that "I'm tired out packing up and marching and doubling and carrying arms and falling in and keeping guard and fighting. I want a little rest." Xenophon describes a rough-and-ready means of getting stubborn prisoners to talk: kill one in front of the other to loosen the survivor's tongue...
Yahoos & Tears. For years, the statehood theme had whisked like a williwaw across the territory, sweeping up the visionaries, tossing the stubborn into stormy waves of opposition. In Washington, Alaska's longtime (first elected in 1944) delegate to Congress, onetime Gold Miner Bob Bartlett, spent his days and nights trying to carve out a 49th star on an unrelenting congressional conscience. Another missionary was a former newsman and editor of the Nation, Dr. Ernest Gruening (TIME, June 16, 1947), appointed Governor of Alaska by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. A diehard conservationist, crusty Ernest Gruening soon realized that Alaska...
...Gaulle is no doubt a difficult man--stubborn, conceited, obsessed by a sense of his personal mission to restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity...
...after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...
While gleefully making enemies, all of Caesar's gall was lavished on a stubborn fight for the rights of musicians against mechanization. He fathered the union contract that requires network stations to hire a quota of "live" musicians whether they ever tootle a note or not. In 1951 he removed one major obstacle to the release of old films to TV by approving the project, provided that the studios 1) rescored the films (i.e., started from scratch with union musicians), and 2) paid 5% of TV profits into the Music Performance Trust Fund. He scored his biggest victory over...