Word: quit
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...mediocre bat (.243 lifetime average), he stayed in the game for 19 years, the last seven as catcher and coach for the Boston Red Sox. In the offseason he also became fluent in ten languages, studied at the Sorbonne, and picked up a law degree at Columbia University. Berg quit baseball in 1942 and served as an OSS agent in Nazi-occupied Europe, where he gathered information on Germany's nuclear weapons research...
...infant to Memphis, where she took a job as a dental assistant at $11 a week. An only child, Wilson idolized his mother, who died three years ago. When she lost her job during the Depression, Wilson, who had held part-time jobs almost since he could walk, quit high school and went to work for good. He bought a $50 popcorn machine-nothing down, $1 a week-and set up shop inside a Memphis theater. As he recalls: "I was soon making more than the theater manager, so he threw me out and took over the popcorn concession himself...
...attrition in the ranks of America's spacemen is already becoming apparent. Apollo 12 Astronaut Dick Gordon recently quit to become executive vice president of pro football's New Orleans Saints, and Apollo 7 Astronaut Donn Eisele traded his NASA desk job for the directorship of the Peace Corps in Thailand. In August, Ed Mitchell, who staged an ESP experiment aboard Apollo 14, will leave the space program to pursue his intense interest in psychic phenomena. Apollo 15 Astronaut Jim Irwin, a Baptist lay preacher, will also retire, "to spend more time spreading the good news of Jesus...
Whalen found himself shouldered aside by the more obliging .men around Nixon, one of whom lectured him: "The trouble with you, Dick, is that you care too much." Indeed, Whalen cared enough to quit before the election and then to write this account of his ordeal of near power-not without a touch of vindictiveness against the man who let him down. As Whalen puts it: "Nixon's worst enemies have nothing to say about him so damaging as the observations of hurt, puzzled friends...
...tough; it was essentially his hard-line protectionist thinking that underpinned Nixon's devaluation of the dollar. Recently, in the face of some Cabinet uncertainty, Connally urgently backed the President's decision to mine Haiphong harbor. Yet last week, at the acme of his influence, Connally quit to return to Texas; he will be replaced at the Treasury by George P. Shultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget (see THE ECONOMY...