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...doubtful if Robinson can match that feat with his present players. But given his reputation, he may manage some surprises. Win or lose, he intends to remain a stubborn, combative athlete; he feels no urge to play the role of ball-park civil libertarian. "The only reason I'm the first black manager," he says, "is because I was born black...
...stubborn Huskies bounced back a minute later with another scoring strike, and the half ended with Radcliffe behind...
...felt there now was the peace of powerlessness. Problems had assumed human proportions again. People laughed and shrugged. They cared but they didn't worry. The sea and the marble and pines calmed the spirit. Or killed it--laid it in the eager hands of waiting colonels. The stubborn antiquity of Greece sometimes struck him as a manufactured dream, a distant product of the American imagination. Perhaps, after all, he must live in the middle of the machine, down among the bits and pieces of broken technology, down where truth was a mindless computation...
...Nixon's upper left leg. In an interview to be published next week in Medical World News, Tkach recalls that Nixon had had thrombophlebitis "at least once before, in the same place, in the same leg." Tkach says that he had feared a recurrence, especially because his stubborn patient refused to wear the elastic bandage he prescribed. Tkach also complained that "I can't get this man near a hospital," and he had no success on that score last week...
...overweight from trying to eat her way out of a mild but chronic depression. In short, like so many characters emerging from the Moore atelier, she is a type we know better from our daily rounds than we do from our nightly viewing: an individual waging a quiet, stubborn struggle to stay on the sunny side of neurosis. She succeeds, as do most of the inhabitants of Mary's small-town TV newsroom, because she is blessed with self-knowledge and the ability to summarize it in a truthful gag line...