Word: diehardism
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...council certain was a speech from the floor by John W. Behnken, respected former president of the Synod, who argued that "our forefathers were certainly interested in the unity of Lutheranism in America." Shortly after, current President Oliver Harms called for a vote. A chorus of scattered noes from diehard conservatives came from the back of Cobo Hall. "The resolution is not unanimous," said Harms, "but it is overwhelmingly adopted...
...Mild. Not that John Sparkman is an integrationist-far from it. Over the years he has voted against more than 100 civil rights bills. But to diehard segregationists, he has never sounded as though he really meant it. Last week, in a Senate speech against an anti-poll-tax amendment to the voting rights bill, Sparkman said stolidly: "Legislation such as this, which is not designed to be applicable to the whole nation at large, is not sound, and Congress should think long and hard before it plunges emotionally into promulgating an extreme measure...
Broken Egg. The Israelis tried hard not to gloat. Bourguiba's plan was no more acceptable to them than it was to the diehard Arabs, for Israel rejects any meaningful territorial concessions and is unwilling to take back masses of Arab refugees who might become a fifth column. Deputy Premier Abba Eban scornfully referred to the U.N. partition plan as a "broken egg" that could not be put back together again...
...Peter Hurd's postcards: If he lived in the Soviet Union he would no doubt be known as one of the more talented exponents of socialist realism. Perhaps Communism and capitalism have more in common than their diehard adherents think...
...Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials. One of his great-grandfathers was Georgia's first...