Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Troublemaker. Aside from this lofty connection, Touré's childhood was singularly unmajestic. One of seven children of an impoverished peasant farmer, he attended a school of Koranic studies at Kankan, eventually wound up in a French technical school. Even after he was forced to quit school, he nagged his friends who were still going to tell him what they had learned, started to read everything he could lay his hands on. In time he became a French colonial treasury clerk in his own country, but his real interests were something else. When the treasury tried to muffle...
...mouth, gives him a quizzical look. He was philosophical ("There was not a damn thing I could do about it. so what was the use of worrying?"). At war's end he went back to the law (in Wall Street), stuck it out for two years, quit in boredom ("The war taught me life could be exciting...
MECHANICALLY O.K., BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT IS MISSING. WHERE DOES THE PARTY STAND; WHAT ARE ITS PRINCIPLES? Goldwater knew what the principles ought to be: LET THE PARTY DECLARE AGAINST CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT . . . LET THE PARTY QUIT COPYING THE NEW DEAL, SEEKING ONLY FOR VOTES...
Some of the reasons were plain. Ever since Mike drove in the 1955 Le Mans, where 83 were killed when a track mixup sent Pierre Levegh's Mercedes into the crowd, Grand Prix racing had not seemed quite the same. Last year came the fiery deaths of his Ferrari teammates, Italy's Luigi Musso and Britain's Peter Collins. At Musso's funeral, Mike grabbed Juan Fangio's hand and muttered: "We have to quit this." (Said Fangio: "That conversation finally decided me to retire...
...over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration to participate in the presidential campaign of Fellow Businessman Wendell Willkie. In 1943 he bought radio's Blue Network for $8,000,000. created the American Broadcasting...