Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students demonstrated their anger by staging a brief boycott of classes. Some 6,000 attended a protest rally sponsored by an organization called Students Helping Academic Freedom at Texas (SHAFT), chanting "Quit." "Quit...
...name," he says. "I consider that progress." His chief political adviser, Benjamin Palumbo, thought that was not sufficient progress. He urged Bentsen to speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then resumed his deliberate pace. Palumbo quit the campaign this month. Says a politician who knows both men: "Ben is a crapshooter, and I get the distinct impression that Lloyd doesn't want to shoot craps." The meticulous multimillionaire is obviously not ready to go for broke...
...balance," says William Randolph Hearst III, 26, her cousin and an Examiner reporter. For that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, put it: "Would the San Francisco papers have reacted...
Editor Stung. One Jesuit stung by Lyons' defection is a fellow conservative, Father Kenneth Baker, editor of the Homiletic. Last week confusion reigned as Baker quit and killed the October edition just as it was about to go to press. Said he: "With his going off and leaving like this, it doesn't make any sense for me to continue...
...been fired, the admission price has gone up to $2.50 and a former bank president has been hired as the museum's chief money-raiser. But its collection is still one of the world's greatest, and if you haven't seen it after all these years you should quit stalling. Right now last spring's bicentennial binge, "Paul Revere's Boston," is finishing its five-month run. It's interesting for colonial silver-and-furniture buffs, but I for one am becoming very bored with the eighteenth century. just opened is an exhibit called "Northem Prints of the Late...