Word: diehardism
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...Thieu on the telephone. The next day he hopped into his black Cadillac limousine for the short six-block drive down Unity Boulevard from the U.S. embassy to Thieu's gleaming Independence Palace. The President was in, and Martin was grim. For months he had been the most diehard American supporter of Thieu. Now he had a bitter task. He was conveying a message that had originated with the Viet Cong's representatives in Paris: beginning midnight Sunday, Thieu had exactly 48 hours to resign, or Saigon would be leveled...
There are also numerous senior leagues for diehard oldtimers. New York cops stay in shape by playing on a team sponsored by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson, a member of the 1956 U.S. Olympic team, gets in his weekly licks in St. Paul. Out in Santa Rosa, Calif., Snoopy's creator, Charles Schulz, 52, built his own rink and trades hip checks at least three times a week with other ancients. "I find hockey to be a necessity," says Schulz. "I go out on the ice for an hour and forget everything...
...further problem for Jackson is the diehard constituency of Wallace, whose unannounced campaign is similarly well financed ($1.8 million at the end of 1974) and well organized. Indeed in the polls Wallace continues to lead Jackson by a substantial margin as the Democrats' choice as their nominee, now that Ted Kennedy has declared himself out of the race. The Alabama Governor is so intensely disliked by liberals and many moderates that he is exceedingly unlikely to win the nomination. But he may still wind up with enough convention delegates so that no one will be able...
...organized in early 1972 and crystallized during the Mass Hall take-over of that spring. H-R D-SOC formed almost one year ago after its national founding convention. NAM spokespersons claim around 25 diehard members, while D-SOC spokesmen say their group has 15 stalwarts. Barring the growth of either the Revolutionary Student Brigade or the Party for Workers Power, they are the biggest and most coherent leftist organizations at Harvard...
...Midwesterner accustomed to the bone-crushing that fills crisp fall afternoons at such institutions of higher learning as Ohio State and Notre Dame, I arrived in Cambridge a skeptic. Harvard football had always been swallowed up in that abyss known as "the East." To a diehard Fighting Irish fan tuning into the Prudential College Scoreboard, "the East" was nothing more than a boring prelude to the really important scores--usually a shellacking by a favorite topten power of some school mired in yet another rebuilding year...