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...even more in 1970, when the audaciously ambitious man from Plains did reach the statehouse. Carter first made Lance head of the inefficient, patronage-ridden state highway department, which the banker cleaned up and streamlined. Then Carter put Lance in charge of his successful struggle to wheedle a stubborn legislature into passing his governmental reforms...
...resolution once again underlined the folly of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's policy. Had it not been for his stubborn refusal all along to accept majority rule, he could have transferred power to the moderates some years ago. Now it is probably too late, although there is speculation in Salisbury that Smith might propose surrendering power to a predominantly black coalition government that would include Sithole, Muzorewa and a number of local chiefs...
...offered the job of chief counsel to the totally biased Lane. Even he realized his acceptance would destroy the investigation's credibility, and the job was offered to Richard Sprague. The highly independent Sprague sought an unreasonably large budget, fought fiercely with the committee's equally stubborn chairman, Texan Henry Gonzales-and both chairman and prosecutor were replaced. The committee still exists but shows little promise of pursuing a judicious inquiry...
...union of their own, by wasting countless thousands of dollars on high-powered legal talent for the sole purpose of stymieing a legitimate voice for its employees, and by failing to recognize that such opposition only further erodes its already severely tarnished public image, the University has displayed a stubborn unwillingness to realize that it cannot always have its own way. Med Area workers will probably make this desire clear on June 29 by giving District 65 a clear mandate. Perhaps then the University will realize that all its money can only buy high-priced lawyers--it cannot...
...Corporation members may well believe this, and they may be right. But one can never be sure that Harvard is this powerful, and that our sense of impotence--our Harvard politics of despair--is justified? We can only find out by daring to try, daring to test Harvard's stubborn and misplaced resolve...