Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrived in 1969 as acting dean to succeed Jean Luis Sert. He came from the Business School where he was professor of Urban Systems, to try to put the School back together. It is hard to know what mandate he received from President Pusey. It might have included the ouster of Hartman, and the subsequent ouster of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier. But regardless of mandates, Kilbridge displayed, during his first year as dean, an incredible ineptness in handling the affairs of the School in general and the Planning Department in particular. Since his arrival, the School's troubles have steadily...
...sometimes argued that it is useless for the U.S. to go all out for Taiwan this year, inasmuch as Peking will almost certainly have enough U.N. support to ensure the ouster of the Nationalists next year. But that argument and those assumptions could easily be upset by new developments, perhaps arising out of Nixon's trip. It is also argued that in view of Chiang's insistence (along with Mao's) that Taiwan is not an independent entity but a province of China, there are no "legal grounds" for the U.S. policy. The issue, in this view...
...treatment of diabetes. To the embarrassment of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón, Houssay was awarded the prize shortly after being fired from his post at the University of Buenos Aires for signing a pro-democratic manifesto. The fiercely independent scientist was reinstated following Perón's ouster...
...this stratagem, admission of Peking would presumably be carried by a simple majority. Then, if the U.S. had its way, expulsion of Taipei would be defined as an important matter requiring a two-thirds vote, which the advocates of Taipei's ouster might fail to muster...
...Daddy." As President for 27 years of the Ohio-size West African rubber republic, he was the oldest, established, permanent, doting, elected patriarch on the continent. Indeed, so popular was Old Daddy with his subjects that the only thing that could oust him from office was death. The ouster came last week, when the 75-year-old President succumbed to complications following a prostate-gland operation in a London hospital...