Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more practical reason for leaving the post: "I wanted to anyway." Citing a state regulation that elected officials who also hold state jobs may not retire with benefits and still remain employed by the city, he maintains that the Globe story merely prompted him to speed up his planned exit from the department. "The only thing I could do was resign; I couldn't retire," he says. With the family insurance business, his salary as a councilor and other interests to fall back, Vellucci says the state job was expendable. "If I was dependent on that job for survival...
...Harry Houdini. He died 51 years ago today--on Halloween in 1926. It was only fitting that the Mysteriarch, as he was known, chose All Hallows Eve to escape from this life: dying on this day was Houdini's last publicity stunt, and one of his best. Always exit with a flourish, as the show biz types...
...pilot of the skyjacked Lufthansa jet. In a fit of irrational fury, the terrorist leader, who called himself "Walter Mahmud," killed Schumann with a single pistol shot when the plane was on the ground in Aden, Southern Yemen. Schumann's body was pushed down the plane's emergency exit chute at Mogadishu. Had it not been for the skill of the rescuing commandos, many, if not all, of the terrified hostages might have suffered similar fates. According to the hostages' accounts, the skyjackers were sadists who flaunted their cruelty. Said a middle-aged male hostage: "They were animals, just animals...
Lance's exit especially troubles businessmen because they feel Carter, whatever his own sentiments, has filled the Administration's second-level posts with people who have no sympathy for them and favor more regulation. Oilmen are particularly suspicious of S. David Freeman, who helped Schlesinger draft the energy program; they regard him as a doctrinaire conservationist who does not even want to increase energy production. William P. Tavoulareas, president of Mobil Oil Corp., adds that "everybody we see in the Interior Department these days is an environmentalist...
...injury made a graceful exit possible, but Koz decided he wasn't going to get beat that easily. Being able to play football, he feels, is a God-given gift. Not to try and use that gift would be a shame...