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...respective armament and undertaking not to increase it, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Red China would agree to limit their armed forces to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000 men each. (These are the figures originally proposed by Britain, against Malik's previous stubborn insistence on one-third reduction all around, a proposal that favored the big armies of Russia and Red China.) In the first stage, nuclear nations would promise not to use nuclear weapons unless the Security Council decided they were acting "in defense against aggression. " The dismantling of foreign bases would...
...Bullet-Bob Turley, the fireballing righthander whom the Yankees bought from Baltimore last year, made his bosses look like smart investors. Only a stubborn scorer kept him from pitching a one-hitter as he struck out 13 batters and beat the Boston Red Sox 6-0, for his fifth victory and fifth full game in five starts...
...president of the Ford Foundation, "He exerted not authority, but leadership." Adds Physicist Rabi: "He believed in his people and what they could do. He made the people there become great men because he believed them great." Most important, he would back up his scientists against the most stubborn military conservatism. When Physicist Luis Alvarez invented G.C.A., he had little to support him but the faith of DuBridge. Then, one night in Britain, G.C.A. brought in a flock of lost 6-175. There was no opposition from Washington after that...
...soured on II Duce and was forced out of public life by Mussolini's displeasure. A leader of Italy's underground in World War II, he served as Minister of Industry and Commerce in various governments during the Allied occupation. The Allies found Gronchi a proud and stubborn man. Once when Gronchi protested a law demanded by the Allied Control Commission, an Allied officer banged his fist on the table and told Gronchi: "I give you seven days. It is ample. I shall expect your draft by then." Gronchi coldly slid the folder across the table and said...
...then that he gets his strength for the day," explains Madame Chiang. Comments a Westerner who knows him well: "He is a very spiritual person, almost a mystic. One of the reasons people sometimes find him stubborn is that he tries to find the answer not only in himself, but in the God he serves." Commented a Western-educated Chinese scholar more tartly: "He is a saintly man. But saintly men are also impossible...