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...week's end 22 Americans and perhaps 80 Koreans had been more or less seriously injured to maintain the principle. Stubborn old Syngman Rhee was beaten, and knew it. Two hours before it expired, Rhee lifted the midnight deadline for NNSC officers to get out of Korea...
With Marked Cards. Stan goes back to Amy, and they measure out their old age in rocking chairs and the stale tea of memory. Author White's notion that destiny plays with marked cards is scarcely fresh, but Stan and even Amy play the losing game with stubborn dignity, unlike their children. Author White is overfond of the eye-stopping metaphor ("She was brushed in sad gusts by the branches of the music"), but at his best, he makes long-suffering Stan at least as poignant as Markham's Man with the Hoe. Stan's mute wisdom...
Balks & Crags. Zhukov's colleagues were less amiable. As the summit conference opened on the third afternoon, Bulganin was stubborn. He wanted a security plan (his own), but refused to accept the West's price-unification of Germany first...
...Gulbenkian's life. The extent of his fortune is still a jealously guarded secret, and the incredible diversity of his financial interests was such that probably nobody but Gulbenkian himself had more than an approximate notion of them. Even the vital statistics of his life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father at the age of three, wrapped, like Cleopatra, in a rug. Likelier history suggests that he came...
...Jimmy Carter, lackadaisical lightweight champion of the world, had already won his title three times and lost it twice. In the Boston Garden, Wallace ("Bud") Smith, a stubborn, long-range stylist from Cincinnati, was out to make him lose it again. By the 15th round, both boxers were hot, but Carter had taken too long to get started. The decision went to Smith...