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Kenneth Spicer Wherry liked to call himself a "political fundamentalist." He could reduce the shadings of any political controversy into a black & white conflict between free enterprise and socialism, or economy and waste. With stubborn affability, he spent nine years in the Senate defending his own simplified brand of Midwestern Republicanism against Democrats and internationalist Republicans...
...Brother John." In Lawrence, Mass., his father knew part the story. "Fred," as he was called around Lawrence, was always a restless boy. A second-string football player, he did poorly in school, but he memorized all kinds of scientific treatises at home. He became silent, sullen and stubborn. At 16, Fred ran away and became a novice in a Cistercian monastery in Rhode Island. "He was a different boy when he came out," says Demara Sr. He tried two more religious orders, but did not stay...
...State Department looked avidly over Matt Ridgway's shoulder, but allowed the Supreme Commander free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway's men served it up, piping hot, to the Reds in the rain-soaked...
With his election victory safely tucked away, Juan Peron moved last week to square his account with the army. It was stubborn opposition in the army's upper ranks last summer which forced Juan and Eva Peron to drop their brash project of running as a family ticket for President and Vice President. It was a humiliating setback, and the Perons do not forget...
...Corridor Echo. The West's response was quick and cold. "The most impressive point, as far as I am concerned," said Dean Acheson, "is Mr. Vishinsky's statement that facts are stubborn things, because he wrestled with facts for two hours and lost...