Word: diehardism
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...opponent, Dr. I. (for Isaac) Beverly Lake, 53, ex-professor of law at Wake Forest College, fired up rebel-yelling segregationist rallies by damning North Carolina's token school integration, promised to "create a climate of public opinion in strong opposition to integration" and draw closer to the diehard Deep South...
...reaction from the French Right was instantaneous. A galaxy of ex-ministers-starring Jacques Soustelle, Georges Bi-dault and Robert Lacoste-charged that De Gaulle's conciliatory words would undermine the French forces in Algeria or even lead to secession. In Algeria, diehard colons threatened new demonstrations...
...balloting was to set up "general councils," which will advise prefects and supervise local administration in Algeria's 13 departments. Candidates pledged to De Gaulle's policy of self-determination for Algeria won 298 of the 452 seats. Candidates running on purely local issues won 67 and diehard anti-Gaullist French settlers another 87. One ultra winner: pretty Babette Lagaillarde, 26, wife of imprisoned ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the extremist settlers of Algiers in their insurrection against De Gaulle last January...
Having lived in the South all my life, I view this legislation as that of typically bigoted and diehard Southerners endeavoring to postpone for a season that which they know is inevitable...
...eleven weeks since four young Negro college students staged the first sitdown demonstration against segregation at the lunch counter of a Woolworth five-and-dime store in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), the lunch-counter movement had spread through the moderate border states and the diehard Deep South like a dry-summer forest fire in a stiff breeze...