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Figl, who is 50, embodies the best and the worst in postwar Austria-the worst being complacency and resignation, the best being his stubborn courage. He also combines the simplicity of four centuries of Catholic peasant forebears with some of the acquired awareness (and tinsel knowledge) of Viennese sophisticates. In his well-tailored morning coat, he still looks the farmer, and he seems quite out of place as he sits in his lavish offices in Vienna's Ballhausplatz, under a portrait of Metternich, who manipulated Europe from the same chamber. Yet somehow Figl is not out of place...
Collaborating with Johnson in the Crimson's third triumph of the season were Bernie Akillian, whose double to left field in the fifth inning scored Charley Walsh with the winning run, and righhander Jack Donclan, whose five innings of one hit relief pitching prevented the stubborn Engineers from tying the score...
...important distinguishing traits. As a group, the Glueck study shows that delinquents tend to be mesomorphic, in constitution (solid, closely knit and muscular). In temperament they are more energetic, impulsive, extroverted, aggressive and destructive than the non-delinquents. In respect to attitude they are generally more hostile, suspicious, stubborn, unconventional, and adventurous. In intellectual life they tend to the direct and concrete rather than abstract expression and are less methodical than non-delinquents. In regard to background they are products of homes of little understanding, affection, and stability, in which the parents are usually unfit to serve as examples...
...River Moves. Last week engineers began closing the escape valves in the great dam. Slowly, inch by inch, the Isère began, backing up. The stubborn peasants of Tignes thought they had one last chance: at a local election last week they voted a solid resistance ticket. All night the town made merry while the new councilors planned a last ditch stand against the company. They would die or drown before they would move from their beloved town, they said. From all over France came reporters and photographers to record Tignes's heroic defiance...
...answer is that Cardinal Segura speaks for the oldest tradition of the Spanish church-one that has come down the years with stubborn strength since the power of the Moors was broken in the 13th century. But today many a Spaniard believes that Cardinal Segura is obsolete. Segura insists 1) that the people are incapable of self-guidance, and 2) that they need to be saved from themselves by a church-directed state which applies the rules of religion with an iron glove. In the past, Cardinal Segura clashed with King Alfonso XIII because he thought him far too mild...