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Mister Sam's stubborn stand left chances for action on presidential disability this session at something close to zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...
...means short of outright force. And during the Casablanca Conference Roosevelt insisted on dining with Morocco's Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, then subject to France, pointedly told the Sultan: "A sovereign government should retain considerable control over its own resources." Most Frenchmen date the Sultan's stubborn drive toward ultimate independence from that...
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 76, has been a member of the House of Representatives for 45 years and Speaker for 13-longer than any other man in history. The years have made him waspish, crotchety and stubborn...
...sides are committed to irreconcilable positions. U.A.W. has to cling to reinstatement as a bedrock-minimum demand. Kohler Co. has vowed that no worker will be laid off to make room for an ex-striker. But even if the reinstatement issue could somehow be arbitrated, the essential clash of stubborn wills would still remain. Herbert Kohler wants to keep U.A.W. out of his company altogether; Walter Reuther has to get U.A.W. in or suffer a humiliating defeat. Wielding the only weapon he has left, Reuther apparently intends to keep up the boycott until Herbert Kohler gives in or the company...
...Risk. Silky's only stubborn detractors are the early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...