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Mayflower), sleeping fitfully, crammed in their cubbyhole quarters, hoisting and furling the stubborn cotton sails with bursting muscle and grim stubbornness...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...
...week's end Gomulka was still very much boss of Poland. He had shown the same kind of stubborn resistance to attack that he had displayed last October, confirming the impression that he is a man who reacts best in a crisis. Once again the Stalinists had been routed, but the vital question they had raised had still to be answered: Can a Communist Party govern successfully without Kremlin support or an extensive police system, make concessions to private enterprise and the church and remain a Communist Party...
...served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable on the battlefield and infuriating off it. His career in the U.S. Army came to a clouded end because of a rancorous quarrel over a finicky point of military etiquette. As professor at Virginia Military Institute, where he taught optics and astronomy, Jackson...
Young King Hussein, who suddenly and dramatically dismissed the pro-Syrian government of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi yesterday, asked Dr. Hussein Fakhri Khalidi to form a new government. Stubborn opposition from the Left appeared to have foredoomed his chances...