Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE are plenty of committees in Washington these days, but virtually no talk of resignations. Since any number of Cabinet members and lesser officials are unhappy with President Nixon's policies, one would assume that a few of them are ready to quit amid ringing pronouncements: "I am sorry that I have only one job to give for my country." But no such moves−at least...
...Yovicsin said that he had medical clearance to complete one more season. He explained the apparent contradiction by saying that previous medical advice to discontinue had not specified a date Yovicsin also said that if he were to quit immediately. Harvard would not have enough time to find a suitable replacement...
...pick up the story (besides the CRIMSON, which had it a day and a half earlier) was Mary McGrory of the Washington Star. McGrory wrote Friday that the professors were "descending" on the White House "with blood in their eyes" to tell Henry Kissinger that "if he doesn't quit soon-or reverse policy-Harvard will never have him back again." The same story was reprinted in McGrory's syndicated column, and appeared in Saturday's Boston Globe. Last week's Time magazine improvised further on the same theme. Time had Kissinger replying to this threat, "quietly" (if somewhat disingenuously...
...conservative newspaper L'Aurore, "why shouldn't other countries be too?" In this view, the new policy may finish off French as the international language of diplomacy, elegance and love. If the French learn only English, their neighbors in Italy, Germany and Spain may very well quit learning French in favor of English...
I.O.S. president, Edward M. Cowett, also quit, though both he and Cornfeld remained as directors. The board picked a chairman, Sir Eric Wyndham White, who is the former head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and a new president, Richard Hammerman, who is the head of the I.O.S. insurance operations and an increasingly powerful man. Their job was to make the best rescue deal possible...