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Fear of the Graves. "As for the Polish intellectuals, they are very stubborn, too. There are even leftist Cabinet ministers here who hate Russia. We must somehow make all Poles understand the need for friendship with Russia-even if it is more with the brain than from the heart...
...helm ... the pilot." The man at the helm is shrewd Manager Bucky Harris. Not the least of his talents is keeping peace between the players and rambunctious Larry MacPhail, the club president. The blowoff that cleared the air came May 22, when MacPhail fined six stubborn players (including DiMaggio) for refusing to cooperate with the Yankee promotion office. From that day, with the team mad, the Yankees rolled up 34 victories in the next 46 games. Harris' pre-game pep talk was always the same: "If we can only get over this...
Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
...then of course when I discovered it was Henry painted at the age of 20, I knew it was too valuable a picture to hang in the house." Stannard had already sold his anonymously painted Henry for "something over a hundred pounds," when it went on show. The stubborn little mouth and wide, shrewd eyes in the portrait were history as well as art; they proved that even at 20, the marrying monarch had looked right for his part: kingly, cruel, and courageous...
Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...