Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party assembled last week in Blackpool for its annual conference, the union men were in an angry, rebellious mood over Wilson's tough wage-restraint policies. Said Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers union, who quit the Cabinet 15 months ago to protest the deflationary measures: "We are almost at the stage of accepting that the workers are on one side and this government is on the other...
...first," says Schlatter, "everybody turned us down. Nobody could identify with the show. There was no guide through this maze of wildness." Then NBC Vice President Ed Friendly pronounced himself so impressed with the show's possibilities that he quit his job to form a production company with Schlatter. Finally, at Friendly's urging, NBC gave the go-ahead to shoot a one-hour pilot of the show...
...even more radical ideas. University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick argues that the rigid military model for police is out of date, suggests that civilian clothes with mere badges would bring policemen closer to their fellow citizens. According to Arnold Sagalyn, formerly a top Treasury Department lawman, police should quit being lonely adversaries and help tackle urban problems-thus preventing a good many crimes that now plague police. Berkeley Psychiatrist Bernard Diamond argues that police forces should also stop recruiting primarily tough men who can "shoot it out." As he sees it, the right model is a potential community-relations...
Within the past year countless other heads of U.S. colleges and universities have also quit, well before retirement age. They include U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, 52, Indiana's Elvis J. Stahr, 52, Swarthmore's Courtney Smith, 51, Kentucky's John W. Oswald, 50, San Francisco State's John Summerskill, 43, and Hawaii's Thomas Hamilton...
...that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...