Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results have proved beneficial to coach as well as players. West had grown bored with retirement, just playing golf and tending his investments. Says Assistant Coach Albeck: "What Jerry missed when he quit was not just the game, it was the bus." Jerry West is back on the bus and the Lakers are back on the winning road...
Married. Anne Baxter, 53, film actress (All About Eve, The Razor's Edge) who quit the screen to live on an isolated cattle station in the Australian outback with her second husband, Randolph Gait, and wrote about it in Intermission; and Wall Street Investment Banker David Klee, 69; she for the third time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...
...chances for the Janata Party to even approach majority status are slim, but the party moved a step closer to challenging Congress rule last week when a powerful political leader, Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram, quit the cabinet and joined the party's ranks...
Ever since he angrily quit as France's Premier last summer with the complaint that he was never granted sufficient power, ambitious and driving Jacques ("Bulldozer") Chirac, 44, has been gunning for President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing. At a massive, brilliantly orchestrated political rally last month, Chirac took personal command of the Gaullist party with the clear aim of replacing Giscard as leader of the government's parliamentary majority (TIME, Dec. 20). For a while Giscard loftily dismissed the ruckus as mere subaltern political maneuvering. But last week Chirac flung down a challenge...
...possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot and a licensed engineer during World War II. His big break came in 1948, when a former business associate, whom...