Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next big event was the Nationals, held at the Louisiana State Fairgrounds at Shreveport. He lost to J.D. Seales, who at that time was the fifth ranked flyweight in the nation. After sustaining his second straight loss, a disgruntled DiNicola decided to throw in the towel, and he quit the team to rejoin his unit...
Fighting as a lightweight last spring, he beat the Massachusetts Golden Gloves winner. A week later, his occasional sparring partner and best friend at Harvard. Pat Melendez, was killed in the ring. "That blew my mind and I quit boxing naturally," recalls DiNicola somberly. "He had a lot of charisma and everyone who knew him loved...
Cronin said he and the other directors also quit because the University refused to provide financial information about the magazine to the directors, making them "mere figureheads...
...Watergate-were not talking about the series. Some of them, like H.R. Haldeman, portrayed by Robert Vaughn with cool viciousness, are now in prison. Surprisingly, one who comes to Haldeman's defense is Herb Klein, communications director for 5½ years in the Nixon White House, who eventually quit as the Watergate investigations were growing. Says he: "The overcentered power of Haldeman is inaccurate. He's a tough guy who ran a tight ship, but he wasn't a Nazi dictator." The fictional Klein character, Bob Bailey (Barry Nelson), is mislabeled as the White House press secretary...
...have yet to encounter any political interference of what we'd call the thought control type, and if I did, I'd quit," Keenan says, but adds "It would be naive to think that RSKU is going to be more like Cambridge than it is like universities in most parts of the world...