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...bought or built ramshackle dwellings under Section 235, got inflated valuations from FHA appraisers and sold the buildings to unsuspecting buyers at unjustifiably high prices. In addition, the attempt to move public housing out of the ghettos and scatter it through white middle-class neighborhoods has met with increasingly stubborn resistance in communities from Black Jack, Mo., to Forest Hills in New York City...
...ANTHONY HERBERT is one old soldier who simply is not going to fade away. His stubborn refusal to cover up war atrocities in Vietnam strictly followed Army regulations. He tried the proper channels and found them closed. When he tried a bit too hard, he was suddenly relieved of his combat command and assigned to a degrading desk job in Georgia, a job only recently vacated by Captain Ernest Medina, who had been hanging there in post-My Lai limbo. After spending his personal savings of $8,000 and going $40,000 into debt trying to gain justice within...
Brown, fighting for an ECAC seed, nearly pulled off an upset last night against the number two seeded Crimson hockey squad. But their stubborn defense collapsed in the third with the score tied at two, and Harvard broke loose...
Scarlet serves Mother Wanda right by disobeying with stubborn chastity, then becoming pregnant the night she loses her virginity. With her friends, she constitutes a kind of neither-nor generation. Rebellious against their parents, rebellious against their children, they are rebellious, above all, against the men they off-and-on love, and yet they still seem unable to organize their lives without them. Weldon men are talkers rather than doers. The aesthetes end up in ad agencies, the back-to-nature idealists wind up turning a profit on battery-stimulated hens. Seldom, if ever, do they make decent lovers...
...author naturally dwells longer on his successes than his missteps, but even the latter provide moments of fine humor. Having refused to accept Herriot's expert diagnosis that his cow had a broken pelvis, one stubborn dalesman proceeded to apply an ancient cure used by his father ("A very clever man with stock was me dad"). The cow turned out to be suffering only from loose pelvic ligaments, which happened to cure themselves almost at the moment the useless home remedy was applied. For years thereafter-which the author would be well advised to cover in a sequel...