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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baughan quit the Naval ROTC program this September. He said that a cruise to Guantanamo and Key West last summer convinced him to make this decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Play Director Drafted; Production Cancelled | 11/1/1969 | See Source »

...wreckers of Maine's environment. The attack is mounted by two Yale graduates, Editor John N. Cole. 46, and Publisher Peter W. Cox, 32, who raised $100,000 to pay for offset printing, two full-time reporters and a rented building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry, they have warmly praised a few lumber and paper companies for enlightened use of Maine land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resources: Trying to Save Maine | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...fired. Polk had been chosen only last January by Edgar M. Bronfman, whose 16% holding in the company was the largest until Kerkorian bought roughly a 40% share for about $100 million. (Time Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman and one of three other directors representing his interests quit the 19-man board last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Return of Smiling Jim | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...enjoy feeling power over myself. I like some of the people on the team, and I can't do anything else around here." he says. "I was going to quit running after my senior year, but I wanted to break 4:20 in the mile, so I ran all summer and I was hooked again. It goes in four-year cycles, and once you're trapped, you're trapped...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Koerner: A Jock of A Different Ilk | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...People quit football because they find it is swallowing up their life while there are more important things going on. For Koerner, cross-country is-if not a spiritual experience-at least something that has "nothing to do with the rest of the world...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Koerner: A Jock of A Different Ilk | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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