Word: diehardism
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Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...
...danger," Bourguiba admitted last week, "stems from the ultras in both camps." In Algiers, bombs are exploding at the rate of three a day, invariably planted by European activists in front of government buildings and the homes of French "liberals" or pro-De Gaulle Moslems. From Tunisia and Morocco, diehard F.L.N. troops mounted savage attacks on the fortified borders of Algeria. They killed 14 French soldiers but suffered a reported 126 dead before breaking off the suicidal attempts to remind the French that the F.L.N. still commands an army in the field...
...Strategic Target Planning board, which is responsible for assigning hot war targets to the various services according to capability, is under heavy fire from a diehard Navy clique in the Pentagon. Reason: the director of the targeting board is an Air Force officer, SAC General Thomas Power, who, to the diehards' way of thinking, ought not to have much to say about the war missions of the Navy's cherished Polaris missile submarines. The Navy critics are not mollified by the fact that a vice admiral is Power's deputy...
...dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce...
Some of the city's parochial schools were segregated and some were not; Archbishop Ritter ordered in 1947 that all be integrated at once. "The cross on top of our schools must mean something," he said. When a group of diehard segregationists threatened to take legal action, Archbishop Ritter squelched them fast with the announcement that anyone involved in such a movement would be excommunicated...