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There are, of course, still a few diehard Thoreau types who prefer to catch up on their writing or sample the sweet joys of summer. Closed up in his Newfane, Vt., summer home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer...
Equally irksome to the military was the gathering momentum of the Peronistas, the 3,000,000 diehard followers of Juan PerÓn who, through their strikes, demonstrations and exorbitant pay demands, have helped trigger the overthrow of three of the five Presidents (including Illia) who followed the deposed dictator. Under Illia, the Peronistas won 61 of Congress' 238 seats, triumphed in two of the last four provincial elections, and were an odds-on favorite to win the key provincial elections in Buenos Aires next March...
...Diehard fans insist that the Yanks will come around. But the Orioles have already walloped them four out of five, and the second-place Cleveland Indians, who tied a modern major-league record with ten straight victories, have beaten them twice in a row. Says Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline: "They used to come out on the field, and you just knew they expected to win. There isn't much of that any more...
...vitally needed funds were siphoned off from the general election into the primary, diehard Peabody partisans refused to support Bellotti against his Republican opponent, and the accusations that one Democrat had hurled against another provided Governor Volpe with all the ammunition he needed for a winning campaign...
...officially to present "Administration" bills. The Senate found itself organized under strong party leadership directed from the White House. In 1917, when a minority balked at the arming of merchantmen and launched a filibuster led by La Follette, Wilson denounced them publicly as "a little group of willful men." Diehard Senators called the statement "little less than an outrage," "unparalleled and unprecedented." But a few days later the Senate voted cloture, curbing general debate for the first time in a century. The Senate had been successfully bullied...