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...Wood-Breakers. The faint aura of unworldliness that clings to him, however, is mostly illusion; the Sikorsky imagination may soar, but he is a practical, enduring, even stubborn man. Though his colleagues call him "Uncle Igor" behind his back, nearly all United Aircraft officials call him Mr. Sikorsky to his face. His career has spanned virtually the entire history of flight...
Even the argumentative European temperament remains. Brinton hypothesizes that disputatious people will not succumb to Communism, and indeed Europeans maintain a stubborn diversity whether discussing compulsory Latin in the schools or policy in Korea. The conflicts in the multifactional French government often sound like bedlam, but according to Brinton this is not a pathological condition. In countries with a two-party system, compromises come from conventions, caucuses and executive chambers; in France the disputes go to the National Assembly, but in all democracies there must be dissension somewhere. The French have managed with similar systems for 164 nearly unbroken years...
...three months they set up an active organization and promoted a highly effective publicity campaign, gaining enough supporters to petition for a referendum on Plan E. But stubborn Councillors refused even to consider the petition. With balloting day imminent the Plan E Committee resorted to the courts...
...would have to enlarge the war. Two months later the Communists signed the armistice. The terms left many Americans unhappy, but no one disputed the proposition that a diplomatic stalemate was preferable to a military stalemate. Dulles has been careful to keep up his relations with Korea's stubborn Syngman Rhee in the face of bitter anti-Rhee sentiment among U.S. allies. Aware that the armistice terms do not allow for a resumption of hostilities if the political conference is not held, Dulles expected the Reds to stall (as they have) on preparations for this meeting. The Communists know...
...McCarty was a quiet man. He tried for 16 years to make his calm voice heard above the clatter of Florida politics. He was also a stubborn man and, as the mortal enemy of Florida's avaricious dog-track lobby, he finally got himself elected governor, and set himself to the job of cleaning up after Governor Fuller Warren. He promised the citizens of Florida that his administration would not be one of "sounding brass or tinkling cymbals...