Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaired by a pet food company executive; an aerospace company vice president headed the academy's aeronautics and space board. Such panels occasionally did include "public interest" representatives, but they had little influence. "Industry was pretty much calling the tune," says University of Minnesota Environmentalist Dean Abrahamson, who quit the academy's power-plant-site committee in disgust...
Cain had been forced to quit the Chicago police in 1960 after he was caught spying on Mayor Daley's commissioner of investigations. Incredibly, he was hired in 1962 by Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogilvie (who was to become Illinois' Governor six years later). Resuming his role as a spy for the Mob, Cain was fired by Ogilvie for his shenanigans in 1964. Finally, in 1968, Cain was jailed for his part in a Mafia operation. Released in 1971, he became the still absent Giancana's man in Chicago...
...Virginia, worked hard at school and was considered a "real prig." Says she: "High schools are real hip now, but there was no counterculture in Woodbridge, Va. in 1963. You were either a homecoming queen or a real weirdo. I was a 16-year-old Wasp wanting to quit school and become Woody Guthrie." She entered the University of North Carolina in 1965 on a dramatic scholarship. "It was a time when the golden girls got married to med students," she recalls. More fearful of regimentation than impelled by ambition, she began singing in local bars. She drifted...
Peretz, who assumed active ownership of his magazine in the fall, saw his editor-in-chief--former publisher Gilbert A. Harrison--quit. Peretz said that the magazine had become a "one-man show" under Harrison, a charge that was directed against Peretz himself later this year...
Complainers and Cranks. Worse still, the dissenter may be relegated to the list of complainers and cranks. William Jennings Bryan quit as Wilson's Secretary of State in 1915 because he thought Wilson was leading the U.S. into war against Germany. He argued his isolationist case with reason and eloquence-and he proved right about the result of Wilson's policies. Yet papers hinted at "a befuddled mind," and Bryan's political career was ended. Elliot Richardson, now Ambassador to Britain, is the rare example of a successful American dissenter. But if his public resignation as Attorney...