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...Longhorn quarterback who commanded the Texas offense in that game or who was the 240 pound tackle who led the stubborn "Big T" defense and earned the "Lineman of the Day" award with 23 tackles...
...ruled out the extreme alternatives: lifting all restraints when the freeze ends, or imposing comprehensive controls that would require an OPA-style army of bureaucrats to enforce. That leaves a totally unprecedented job: putting partial controls on a still wobbly economy at a very late stage of an exceedingly stubborn inflation. In addition, Nixon and many of his advisers, especially Budget Boss George Shultz and Economic Aide Herbert Stein, have in the past shown an ideological horror at any interference with free markets. Casting them as price-control planners, quips Robert Nathan, a member of TIME'S Board...
...expense of spirit, since in the end it changed nothing and accomplished nothing. ∙ Thus some questions arise. Is Mindszenty a genuine martyr, a living lesson for the Christian world? Was his safe, if uncomfortable self-imposed imprisonment the moral equivalent of a saintly sacrifice or an act of stubborn self-indulgence? (If he wanted real imprisonment or, conceivably, death, he could quite easily have walked out of the embassy into the custody of the ever-present Hungarian secret police.) Is he a witness to the permanence of principle or just another solitary figure that history has bypassed...
...Gold Records. The religion stuck, and so did the singing. In 1961 Berry Gordy, the mogul behind Motown, spotted Gaye in a black club in Detroit. Within a year Gaye had the first of twelve gold records, Stubborn Kind of Fellow, and soon was married to Gordy's sister Anna, living in Gordy's former house in integrated but still fashionable North Detroit...
...aimed at relatively small firms. Five have been selected for gentle pressure in the next few weeks. Large companies are too visible to get away with a dividend rise, and only small ones can afford to be daring or, as in the case of Florida Telephone's Wettstein, stubborn...