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John L. Lewis, whose life has been one long noisy scrap, reached his 70th birthday this week, bellowing and posturing through the toughest scrap of his life. He had been unable to wring concessions from a group of coal operators as stubborn and tough as he. Their quarrel threatened to bring the country's economy to its knees...
Citation, the wonder horse, was carrying more weight (130 lbs.) than ever before, but he was the overwhelming favorite at 1-4. As he came charging into the stretch, there was only a stubborn grey horse from the Argentine, a 14-1 long shot named Miche, for the champ to catch...
Twelve O'Clock High is the story of a stubborn flying general's mission: rebuilding a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to 1) discredit precision daylight bombing, and 2) undermine the whole aerial offensive against German-held Europe. Brigadier General Frank Savage-(Gregory Peck) goes at the job with the cold passion of a martinet and the inner torment of a man of good will. He breaks subordinates, cancels privileges, harangues his crews ("Consider yourselves dead"), disgraces misfits, puts the outfit through elementary training paces and woos such resentment that every pilot accepts...
...Tail. Elsewhere in the world last week, man's fey behavior was undoubtedly affecting other members of the animal kingdom. In Honolulu, pearl fishermen made plans to dope stubborn oysters into yielding up their precious pearls, by a drug said by its sponsor to resemble that used by obstetricians in inducing "twilight sleep." In Thaxted, Essex, a theatrical scene painter unveiled a gasoline-powered mechanical elephant that walked at 28 m.p.h., flapped its ears, carried eight passengers, a license plate and a taillight...
...large obstacle to European agreement was shrewd, stubborn Vladimir Porché, director general of state-owned Radio Diffusion Française, who is determinedly plugging France's new 819-line system* as the European standard. Porché has already put up a TV transmitter in Vatican City and plans to spot TV sets in Roman theaters and public places to win friends and potential customers for France among the thronging Holy Year pilgrims. His engineers, operating on a shoestring, have developed an inexpensive relay network to carry Eiffel Tower telecasts beyond French borders. One such station is perched...