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...another by lengths of rope and sinews of courage, they edged along toward the 18,200-ft. level on the sharp west buttress-and then one slipped. As the first fell, and then the second, the third and the fourth, one of them swung his ax into the stubborn ice, but it did not hold. The four fell about 400 ft. and then rolled to a stop, huddled in pain...
...needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from now, crowded India will have 80 million more mouths to feed; unless output is raised drastically, there will be scarcely two-thirds the amount of food needed to stave off hunger...
Gunfire rattled again last week through remote cities with names once painfully familiar to U.S. G.I.s - Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu, Taejon, Seoul. Once again, as he had in 1950, South Korea's stubborn, prideful President Syngman Rhee, 85, stood with his back to the wall. But this time Rhee's opponents were not Commu nist invaders. They were South Korea's own eager, patriotic youngsters...
From the sanctuary of one of Seoul's private hospitals, Lee fought a stubborn delaying action. Rushing off to Kyung-mudae, Madame Lee joined forces with her great friend, Rhee's Austrian wife Francesca, and together the two women spent a tearful hour begging Rhee not to insist on Lee's resignation. But the pressure on Rhee steadily increased. Ambassador McConaughy came through the tanks, machine guns and barbed wire around the palace to deliver another reminder of U.S. concern. At Inchon, 25,000 people turned out to demonstrate-with no violence from the chastened police...
...endlessly on his stroke ("Left arm straight, right arm close, hands tight on the club"), brushed off criticism that the boy's swing was too violent ("When he gets older, he'll balance himself better"). In the process, Palmer absorbed from his father another mainstay of his game: stubborn determination. "Pap doesn't quit something until it's completely impossible," says Palmer. "He taught me that...