Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...job offers he received from private business after last Nov. 5 would have meant putting himself out to pasture. The green was all but irresistible; some of the proffered posts would have made him instantly wealthy. They included the presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard...
Humphrey refused, of course, primarily because the U.N. job would not have permitted him the necessary latitude to criticize the incumbent's policies. When the Vice President decided to take leave of government entirely, Nixon called on his own experience to make the move a bit easier. Remembering his dejection at having to travel back to California aboard a commercial aircraft in 1960, the President arranged for Humphrey and his wife to arrive in Minnesota aboard a presidential 707 Air Force jet-a bigger plane than he normally commanded as Vice President...
Conscious of the need for continuity of leadership, the Cabinet named Allon to carry on while a successor is chosen to head the government until Israel's general elections next October. To fill that largely caretaker role, party leaders offered the top job to the one person around whom all Israeli politicians could rally: strongwilled, grandmotherly ex-Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
...completely. Nor did O'Neill succeed in attracting a significant share of the votes of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. Fed up with the ineffectiveness of their own Nationalist Party, some Catholics turned instead to the new People's Democracy Party, which has taken on the job of battling for civil rights. Most of the rest refused the chance to vote for a pro-O'Neill Protestant and stuck with Catholic candidates of whatever party label...
Previously undefeated captain Howie Chatterton dropped a close decision to talented sophomore Tom Potts, 7-6, and Harvard trailed by six. Imrie postponed the sad ending with an 8-3 triumph over his opponent at 177. "John did a really good job," Lee said after the meet...