Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad's airport, Aref was spotted at once by an alert army officer, and his taxi was followed by two army jeeps. Escorted to Kassem's office, he refused to quit the country again. Kassem thereupon arrested his old comrade. Moving to head off the expected explosion among Aref's army and political followers, Kassem quietly ordered an estimated dozen of Aref's army buddies taken into custody. Then, repeating his maneuver of last September, when he coupled the promise of land reform with the announcement of Aref's demotion, Kassem softened the late-night...
...extension," Prime Minister Kishi announced tartly, "is now an accomplished fact." But at week's end, disturbed by the public unrest over his police legislation, Kishi took the unprecedented step of consulting his three elderly living predecessors. Their advice: quit trying to jam through the unpopular police bill...
Richard George, 69, quit his night-shift job as a billing-machine operator in the Reader's Digest circulation fulfillment department, went back to England and his full identity: Richard Lloyd George, second Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, son of World War I Prime Minister David Lloyd George. When his father died in 1945, the new earl succeeded to the title but inherited nothing of the $300,000 estate, discomfitedly said: "If he was going to leave me the baby, he should have given me a perambulator to put it in." Home after ten years of self-exile...
...long and the next, the quit parade continued to Langlie's tenth-floor office in the magazine's Park Avenue building-John English, managing editor; Jay Stanwyck, director of research; Estelle Lane Brent, fashion editor; Betty Parsons Ragsdale, fiction editor; Marion Wheeler, production editor; Peggy Bell, features editor. By week's end 16 staffers had resigned, and, one by one, McCall's publicity department doggedly issued terse press releases with the news. Some of the departees were so angry that they left without cleaning out their desks, had their belongings shipped home. Shrugged Langlie...
...advertising departments should cooperate more closely. When the astounded Wiese asked Langlie if he favored such a tie-in, the Governor said yes, added that Frankel was getting an office on the editorial side to keep an eye on things. With that, Wiese decided that it was time to quit, and the parade...