Word: diehards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, only 7,813 diehard fans showed up to watch mild-mannered Champion Floyd Patterson initiate Challenger Tom McNeeley into his "Bum of the Year" club. A pug-nosed, ex-Michigan State footballer who once visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley butted, elbowed, and threw four low punches in a row. Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that...
...resigned as armed forces chief of staff and embarked with a consoling German blonde on the family yacht Angelita, bound first for the nearby island of Guadeloupe, then for the bright lights of Paris. That left a vacuum, which the uncles sought to fill. They tried to line up diehard Trujillo generals for a coup, and according to opposition reports were prepared to murder upwards of 1,000 enemies in one night...
...Left to Be Right. As Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod liquidated African colonies at a clip that would soon have liquidated the Colonial Office. Diehard imperialists argued that he was selling the white man down the river, but Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
...administrator, but he is an expert on survival. With the help of one crack but overworked regiment of paratroopers, he quickly routed the Sumatran rebels in half a dozen brief and mostly bloodless battles, and drove the remnants into the hills. In the other islands, Sukarno sent troops against diehard colonels and won submission from pliable ones by giving them a free hand in running their areas once they had given him their allegiance. He also quietly redressed many of the economic grievances that had spurred the revolt...