Word: diehardism
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Last week, when the votes were counted, the dream became a nightmare: Cliff Case won his renomination by a 2-1 vote over Morris. Said Diehard Morris, without offering Case specific support in the November runoff. "We fought a campaign on principles...
...Says one diehard member of the cast: "A great deal of this drama will have been sacrificed...
...best news of all for Moslem women was the complete abolition of the Bait al-Taah. After October, whenever a distraught wife runs home to mother, she can be won back only by a husband's pleading, not by a policeman. For diehard Moslem men, the new matrimonial methods will be a cruel blow, and they can find comfort only in such an Arabic proverb of resignation as: "Better a handful of dry dates and content therewith, than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel...
...enlisted a powerhouse of support: the National Security Council, Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharpe, Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Elwood R. Quesada (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the White House. MATS did not yield without a fight. Even in the face of official Air Force approval, it still has its diehard advocates of military competition with business. But at week's end, the word had gone out from the Air Force's vice chief of staff, General Curtis LeMay, to MATS officers that they must support the new policy...
...understand De Gaulle's Algerian policy, and added: "De Gaulle was the only man at our disposal. Perhaps the army made a mistake." Within 24 hours after Kempski's interview hit France, Massu was on his way to Paris to explain. From Algiers, spokesmen for the diehard European settlers' organizations loudly warned De Gaulle not to make them choose between him and the popular Massu; even Premier Michel Debré wanted to accept Massu's ambiguous repudiation of the interview. But at that point De Gaulle blew up. Outraged by the implication that the army...