Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walkout were Louis Stul-berg, president of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Communications Workers President Joseph Beirne, Berkeley Political Scientist Paul Seabury, and Leon H. Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Representative Henry Gonzalez, a Texas liberal and Johnson ally, also quit. Everyone expected a hasty and embarrassed resignation from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the founders of the A.D.A. in 1947, but his aides passed the word that Humphrey had quietly allowed his membership to lapse three years...
...energetic than in the neighboring dioceses of San Francisco and Oakland. The San Francisco senate operates its own office independent of the chancery, has even set up a "reserved affairs" committee to handle the delicate problems of priests who get into legal or other trouble or who want to quit the ministry. In Oakland, Bishop Floyd Begin has approved ten of his senate's twelve recommendations to date, including one suggesting authorization of Masses in private homes...
...over Christmas and then developed mononucleosis. He's played only one game at full strength during the Ivy campaign, sparking the Crimson's sole victory over Brown. A defensive standout as a freshman, Ernie Hardy practiced for a week at the beginning of the season and then had to quit until this week for scholastic reasons. Last year's starting guard Jeff Grate played very little during the summer and then got back at the beginning of practice...
Reversing History. When Henry Ford presented his prize catch to newsmen, he recalled the precedent set by Bunkie's father. Big Bill Knudsen had worked for ten years at Ford, rising to production manager, before he quit in 1921 after Henry Ford I had rejected his advice to abandon the Model T and broaden Ford's one-product line. Moving shortly to General Motors as vice president of Chevrolet, Knudsen gave Chevrolet the pickup that put it ahead of Ford. His reward was G.M.'s presidency. "Today," said Henry Ford II, "the flow of history is reversed...
...temperamental Hardy, a defensive standout on last year's freshman team until he quit halfway through the season, has been scholastically ineligible this winter...