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...haggard face gave vivid evidence that he had been harshly treated. But even then, a shocked world could hardly imagine what had been done to make so proud and stubborn a man as József Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, stand in the dock and drone out a confession to patently false charges of treason and conspiracy. Only when he published his Memoirs late last year did he provide a full account of how Communist police had broken his spirit. For five weeks he was harangued, stripped naked, kept forcibly awake, drugged and thrashed endlessly with a rubber truncheon...
...also a century of Western domination. The massive, 20-year American struggle to build a stable non-Communist government in South Viet Nam was finally and definitively ended, an all but total failure. When Communist soldiers in Saigon fired salvos into the air and shouted, "Victory! Victory!" the stubborn, inextinguishable dreams of Ho Chi Minh and his heirs in Hanoi were fully realized...
...exterior of soft susceptibility is misleading. She is a stubborn perfectionist. The woman who is one of the leading pop stylists of the decade is now learning Bach arias for future records: "I can share with the audience the way I feel through Bach as well as pop." Flack cautions tartly, "You better not be surprised if you hear me do Manon Lescaut some...
...ultimately improves Ford's policies and decision making. The record so far is mixed. He has been forced to learn on the job, and because he listens to a wide variety of views, he sometimes changes his mind in response. That is surely better than a President so stubborn and isolated that his first conclusions are never challenged and corrected. But it also dilutes Ford's leadership because he can end up saying one thing today and another tomorrow. Thus the dismal State of the World address blaming Congress for the collapse of South Viet Nam was succeeded...
...stopped thinking a long time ago. Hersey says of the Ford who requested useless military aid for Vietnam and Cambodia up to the last minute: "Once he has made such a [tough] decision, he does not agonize over it; rather, he becomes convinced of its rightness and is stubborn in its defense, even when...it is unpopular politically hopeless and of the most improbable efficacy...