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Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...Church's direct appeal from the pulpits for Demo-Christian votes may have hindered as well as helped, for while 99.6% of all Italians are Catholics, many cling to a stubborn anticlerical tradition in politics...
...vote of 74 to 72, stubborn, hard-fighting old Eamon de Valera once more became Ireland's Prime Minister. Manhattan-born De Valera, 68, had held that job for 16 years, had seen Ireland achieve full independence, before he was defeated at the polls three years...
Such teamwork pays big dividends. When Robinson won the middleweight title (160 Ibs.) from Jake LaMotta last February, the fight was a classic example of close teamwork, careful strategy and calculated risk. Against the "Bull of The Bronx," a stolid, crowding fighter with menacing strength and a stubborn pride in never having been knocked down, the Robinson strategy board settled on the dangerous game of the bull ring, with Robinson dancing out of the way of LaMotta's angry charges, prodding back to weaken his opponent...
Writing recently in London's Sunday Express, British Columnist Beverly Baxter (member of Parliament from Southgate) addressed himself to a popular subject-that curious aspect of British sportsmanship which seems to make Britons "prouder of a stubborn defeat than of a glorious victory...