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...Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...
Speaking of his days at Harvard, Santayana confessed that he hated President Eliot, and loved President Lowell--"a gentleman, a man of deep understanding." But Eliot was, for Santayana, the symbol of everything he loathed; he was "The Last Puritan," the figure of stubborn, stupid morality...
...sparkplug of Newfoundland's drive to the future is a bouncy, bow-tied little (5 ft. 6 in.) man, Joseph Roberts Smallwood, 51, the provincial premier. A onetime radio announcer, Joey Smallwood stumped the island in 1948, and almost singlehandedly broke down its stubborn resistance to union with Canada. Elected the first premier, he set up an economic program that has brought a healthy flow of industry and capital into the province. Newfoundland's low income is already up nearly 300% above the 1939 level, and Joey Smallwood's drive is still going strong. Last week...
...range from simple theft to multiple murder, but the program is more concerned with the painstaking solving of crimes than with showing their gory execution. Once the entire half-hour was devoted to a verbal third degree, as Webb and his fellow detective, Ed Jacobs, broke down a coolly stubborn jewel thief...
...Corruption is not only the result of greediness among the rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from the bottom up. The question is whether he has the skill to do it-or the time...