Word: rigidities
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...candidly admits to a stoical attitude: "I may be dying, but I certainly would never say anything about it." Her temper, too, is always under rigid control. "I never have tantrums," she says. "If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone." She is just as silent-in public-on the subject of politics. "I've always been a part of what's done," she explained to a pride of society-page lionesses in Detroit last week, "but ; silent partner." Underneath her carapace of reserve Pat Nixon carries...
...crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away at FAA's rigid judgment, Quesada had the last word: investigation showed that the pilot had failed to safety-catch a fuel-flow lever; it had slipped out of position to cut off the fuel to one engine on takeoff. The FAA rules on fuel-flow levers were tightened...
...their loyalty is lifelong. Some of the crustiest Republican conservatives and bourbon Democrats in the Senate-men whose political views are diametrically opposed to everything Humphrey stands for-are his cordial personal friends. It is said that if the Senate held a popularity contest-with the voting in rigid secrecy, to be sure -Humphrey would be one of the top favorites...
...Harry Truman," said Nixon, "was somewhat of a table pounder. He got some results that way. Mr. Eisenhower is a persuader. He's gotten results, too. The problem of leadership cannot be described in terms of rigid, black and white categories. A President's success is determined by his results rather than...
...courage (his Pulitzer-prizewinning book. Profiles in Courage, was written while he was recovering from a painful, near fatal series of operations for a wartime spine injury), Kennedy has waged a forthright and energetic campaign on most issues, has doubled back only on his 1956 Senate vote against high, rigid farm price supports (the vote that lost him much Midwest support in the 1956 vice-presidential race) to embrace supports in this campaign. By poll and by general agreement of the professionals, Kennedy currently leads the field of Democratic hopefuls...