Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Valenti, 44, quit as a White House aide to become the $150,000-a-year (plus expenses) president of the Motion Picture Association of America. Valenti, a former Texas adman whom
...that people who take LSD with great frequency eventually turn against it, and swear off it either for life or for a long time. So Leary's action comes as no surprise, and I think it's a good thing for Leary, who was taking LSD every week, to quit for a year...
...dock-walloper-with the police ever tagging his footsteps. Danny's first job was arranged by Grace's new husband, Mitsura ("Mits") Wakita, a warmhearted Japanese-American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago...
...gone begging. Auerbach's first choice as his successor was former Celtics Star Frank Ramsey, but Frank pleaded that he was too busy supervising the nursing homes he owns in Madisonville, Ky. Bob Cousy, who earned the nickname "Mr. Basketball" in 13 years with the Celtics, refused to quit as coach at Boston College. Ex-Celtics Forward Tommy Heinsohn told Red that he preferred his settled routine as a Boston insurance agent to the ulcers of a pro coach...
Weldon James, an associate editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, made sure that his readers knew exactly how he felt. "I quit," he wrote in a signed editorial published last week. "I resign." He and his paper, he went on to explain, had come to a parting of the ways over Viet Nam. "The Courier-Journal is no appeaser," he wrote, "no advocate of U.S. withdrawal, but it does not speak with the sharpness I believe the continuing crisis demands...