Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking down the bumpy road toward 1960, Jack Kennedy has moments of discouragement. He takes from his wallet a cartoon showing a harassed office worker, standing on his chair, thumbing his nose at his desk, and crying "I quit!' Says Kennedy: "That's the way I feel sometimes." But in a more characteristic mood, even while maintaining his official if-I-decide-to-try line, he looks eagerly to the brawls ahead. Says he: "Nobody is going to hand me the nomination. If I were governor of a large state, Protestant and 55, I could sit back...
...airpower, and the U.S. is aware of all of them. A year ago, when the Russians threatened to send volunteers to exploit the Suez crisis, the U.S. sent Moscow a private hands-off warning -and sufficient SAC bombers took the air to make the warning effective. The Russians quit talking about volunteers. SAC's bombers can be moved to forward bases to make political points (and to be read on enemy radar) just as the Navy's fleets can steam ostentatiously to show the flag. As an instrument of keeping the peace in the cold war, bombers still...
Over the babble in NATO's halls last week, the dry voice of experience was heard. Sprightly old (just 70) Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery announced that next September he will quit as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander. "I am pulling out because I am satisfied that the danger of direct attack on NATO countries is now very remote. What might be called the European test match can be postponed indefinitely [although] there may be village cricket elsewhere in the world," Monty explained. "The 1949 conception of NATO is now too narrow. Its members have got to look...
Remote & Austere. He quit Budapest in 1950. Emaciated, half-paralyzed, speaking with a slur, Klemperer kept hunting for occasional conducting jobs. In 1951, in Canada, he fell again and broke his left thigh bone. Hobbling about on crutches, he still had the will to conduct but not the strength to stand up while doing it. Sitting on the podium before orchestras, he showed his old relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood...
...Good Life. Riding his success, Feehan quit his job with RFE, now earns some $800 a month by outside projects, mostly writing German and American screenplays. His take from Munich-Go-Round: $40 a column, a pittance by U.S. standards, but the highest rate in Munich. On his combined earnings, Feehan lives with a stunning, British-born wife in a small house in Munich's fashionable Harlaching suburb. There Feehan throws cocktail parties for hordes of friends and contacts, happily moves through the crowds with a gallon of martinis (8-to-1) in one hand, and a gallon...