Word: diehards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...
...Zouaves (a mixed French and Moslem light infantry outfit) moved into Algiers at 11 p.m., the ultra announcer on Radio Algiers cried: "We are being betrayed! To the Forum!" At the Forum, a large square in front of Algiers' General Government Building, a crowd of 25,000 diehard Europeans milled about and watched the death of their dream...
...whites, this was hardly a promise of anything. But could Kenyatta be kept out of Kenya's politics indefinitely? Even the diehard whites were beginning to admit that it was only a question of time before the man they dreaded would be back in circulation-probably as Kenya's first Prime Minister. Many white moderates were openly urging Kenyatta's immediate release to break the political deadlock. Swallowing hard, Nairobi's white-run Nation declared: "He refuses to commit himself on any major problems facing the country. [But] there comes a point when a leap...
With the Senate having already passed the Administration-backed bill to restore Dwight D. Eisenhower's five-star-general rank, the House added its approval in a virtually unanimous voice vote. The only naysayer: Arkansas' diehard Dale Alford, who explained that he could not stand aside "as all the colloquy was being piled higher without being reminded, and without reminding my colleagues, especially those from the South, that we are dealing here with the man who violated the Constitution by sending illegally, and in an unwarranted spirit of indiscretion, armed, bayoneted troops into Little Rock...
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...