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Overcome by his failure to father a son and goaded by his wife's growing insanity, the slow-speaking, stubborn immigrant turned sullenly away from his disintegrating family. Years later, beaten in a bloody strike by his fellow workers, betrayed by his bosses, driven out of his senses by the sight of his wife huddled in the rocking chair she has not left for almost 20 years, Stanislaw drinks himself blind. In a wild rage against man and God, he fulfills his obsession. That incestuous obsession concerns Stella-and, by the story's end, it explains her desperate...
...Dwight Eisenhower. Hagerty thumped the tub for Ike throughout the preconvention campaign and the general election. The day after Eisenhower's inauguration, Hagerty was sworn in as White House press secretary. The President discovered early in the game that he was hiring no sycophantic flack: Hagerty got stubborn about some since-forgotten point of press policy, and the Eisenhower temper flashed. After several minutes of colorful language, Ike paused for breath, regarded the uncowed Hagerty. Said he: "You don't scare very easily...
Helen Maysey was a sickly baby. She had a stubborn anemia that did not respond to treatment with iron and vitamins. By the time she was three, doctors found her spleen enlarged, decided that this versatile organ, which both makes and destroys blood cells, was overdoing the destructive part of its job. Surgeons took out her spleen. That gave only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years...
...directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only agree to postpone their choice until their next meeting in June...
...Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...