Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are others who would like to leave too. Bill Timmons, 43, official liaison with Congress for the White House, has reluctantly agreed to stay on for another year; to quit now, he fears, would be interpreted as an act of disloyalty to his boss. Chief Speechwriter Ray Price, 43, has been thinking about leaving, but will stay on for the present...
...radio.) She started out not in Nashville but in a place called Covina, California, where she taught elementary school for five years under the unmusical name of Yvonne Vaughn, and started writing songs to make herself into Donna Fargo. Only when she made it big did she quit and come East live in Nashville...
Brooklyn born, raised and educated (Brooklyn College), Lichtenstein studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, then danced with the New York City Opera and the Dance Drama Company. He quit to spend three years as a fund raiser for Brandeis University. This was followed by a Ford Foundation fellowship on which he activated the subscription program of the New York City Ballet, an accomplishment that brought him to the attention of the Academy's board of directors...
Boone finally sent Porelle away for a week's rest and his aide Larry Solomon ended the lock-up. Porelle quit in early March, claiming that Boone was "meddling." Boone instituted a 24-hour civilian observers program--something the Ad Hoc Committee had been asking for two years--at the same time...
After the May 19 riot, Boone had lost all power and the governor would not appoint the superintendents Boone recommended. On June 21, Sargent fired Boone and sent the State Police to take control of Walpole. The civilian observers quit Walpole one week later, after the police had denied them the rights to talk or listen to the prisoners or to gain access to the cell blocks. The observers felt that they had become a factor that legitimized the State Police repression...