Word: hardheadedness
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What Villeda Morales could not do was pacify the country's bush-league, 5,000-man armed forces. By a quirk in Honduras' constitution, the army rates as a semiautonomous agency, dependent on the Congress for funds, but taking orders only from itself. Villeda Morales first alarmed the...
In repeated attempts to piece together a new government, outgoing Prime Minister Jan de Quay and other leading politicians were unable to devise acceptable compromises on the major issues that split the parties: bigger old-age pensions, the housing shortage, lower taxes for middle-income groups. After one party leader...
In its third week, the seven-union walkout led by the Newspaper Guild against the morning Advertiser and afternoon Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's only two island-wide dailies, has become a contest of wills between hardheaded Financier Chinn Ho, who dominates both papers, and Jack Hall, the tough boss...
As it turned out, the principal effect of the changes was to drive from the Finance Ministry Francisco San Tiago Dantas, a brilliant, opportunistic politician whom the U.S. regarded as a man doing his honest best to carry out a needed austerity in Brazilian affairs. Having obliged the spenders by...
In any case, the campaign is already under way. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan threw a straw in the wind by re-appointing hardheaded Lord Poole as co-chairman of the party with Leader of the House Iain Macleod. Poole, who raised record sums for the Tories in the 1955 and...