Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that Duvalier has finally arranged for a successor after 13 years of absolute rule suggests that he may be succumbing to chronic heart disease and diabetes. There were rumors in Port-au-Prince, in fact, that his doctors had ordered him to quit as President. There was one small problem, but Haiti's obedient National Assembly last week overcame it by voting unanimously to lower the constitutional minimum age for a President from 40 to 20 and giving Papa Doc the legal power to name his successor. For good measure, the government decreed that Jean-Claude is really...
...December, the Akron city council ordered local stores to quit selling detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Reason: phosphates, a prime source of water pollution, are forcing cities like Akron to build more and more costly sewage-treatment plants. Last week the Soap and Detergent Association, whose members produce 90% of the nation's cleaning agents, asked Akron's Summit County common pleas court in effect to void the ban. In the first such industry suit in the U.S., the plaintiffs not only called the Akron deadline "impossible" but also claimed that it will force soap manufacturers...
...rock era. But what sticks in his mind today is not the joy of the pop classics he wrote with Paul McCartney, but the misery that fame brought him, as well as the suppression of ego required by working in the group. It was Paul McCartney who quit the Beatles last spring and who is now formally seeking to dissolve the group in a London court. The only thing Lennon regrets about that, or so he says in a current two-part interview in Rolling Stone magazine (TIME, Jan. 18), is that he did not walk out first...
During the communication breakdown. Daley managed to improve his position by rolling onto his stomach. The maneuver soon was erased as Henson put him back on his back. To the strains of "quit screwing' around, Henson," he then proceeded to pin Daley...
...basketball scouts have been after Haywood ever since he led the U.S. basketball team to victory in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. At the University of Detroit, the 6-ft. 9-in. forward became an All-America in his sophomore year. Then he quit school to sign a contract with the Denver Rockets of the A.B.A. Teams from both pro leagues complained that the Rockets had violated the so-called "four-year rule," which prohibits the recruitment of a college player until his class graduates; in Haywood's case, that would be June 1971. Explaining that Haywood...