Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said General Alexander M. Haig, 54, in announcing last week that he will resign in June as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and retire from the U.S. Army. His sudden announcement to quit was something of a surprise to President Carter, who last fall had asked Haig to stay for another year in the NATO post he has held since 1974. It stirred speculation that he is getting ready to run for the Republican presidential nomination...
Yale officials sunnily maintain that they will eventually meet their $370 million goal by June as contributions dribble in. But to their dismay, operating costs have risen so sharply that they now estimate they will need an additional $50 million a year in the future. Says the Yale drive's executive director, Terry Holcombe: "We've learned that we can't retreat to a peacetime posture between drives...
...states have already taken steps to name January 15th a holiday. In a half-hearted appeal, South Carolina offered its residents the unique option of honoring either King on January 15th, Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general on January 19th or Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederacy, on June 3rd. And Tennesseans have even more important things on their minds as they consider January 8th a state holiday in honor of the late rock and roll king Elvis Presley...
...know history"; and last June, when accepting the American Institute of Architects' gold medal, he gave a kind of official blessing to it: old Bernini patting heads in the studio. "We stand at an enormous watershed," he remarked. "We stand at a place where maybe we haven't stood for 50 years, and that is a shift in sensibility so revolutionary that it is hard to grasp because we are right in the middle of it. It is the watershed between what we have all been brought up with as the Modern, and something new, uncharted, uncertain and absolutely delightful...
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