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Last Stand. Head's cannon ball and Hartwig's fine backhand won two quick sets despite one diehard net play from a reinvigorated Seixas. Coming back with his best performance of the afternoon, Trabert belted a two-handed push volley past the astonished Australians, smashed ahead to win the fourth set and tie up the match...
...Gilded Ghetto." When Margie is not coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly...
...learned that he had won an other. The pollster reported that among New York Democrats, 76% are foursquare behind Averell Harriman for President, only 19% favor Adlai Stevenson (a diehard 1% named Jim Farley, while 4% are undecided). The Boss of Tammany Hall was immensely gratified to receive the glad-but not unpredictable-tidings...
Colonialism Is Dead. The cause of the rouble is the crusade by Maroc-Presse or Moroccan autonomy. For two troubled years it has been telling fellow Frenchmen that colonialism is dead, that they must begin native self-government. To diehard French colonialists such an appeal amounts to treason, the betrayal of France to Moroccan nationalists...
Then came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...