Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the rank of colonel and a chestful of medals, including the Compaction de la Libération (held by only 600 living Frenchmen). A Deputy since 1946. he has served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within the Radical Socialist Party. The chief architect of Suez intervention, he is 100% behind the muscular Algerian policy...
...Quit Smoking? Even after a man has been a heavy cigarette smoker for many years, he can still reduce his risk of premature death by kicking the habit, declared Hammond and Horn. After a man had been off the weed for a year or more, his prospects improved; among men who had quit light smoking (less than a pack a day) ten or more years previously, the death rate from most causes was scarcely greater than among lifetime nonsmokers; ten years after heavier smoking, it was 50% greater-and markedly higher from lung cancer...
...also irritated his trustees by completely disassociating himself from fundraising. Finally, in one of the most publicized academic uproars of the time, he was forced to hand in his resignation in 1923. That commencement, 13 students flatly refused to accept their degrees, and eight professors and associate professors quit the college in protest...
...years. His crews have won the world's top rowing honors-from collegiate championships at Poughkeepsie to Olympic laurels at Helsinki-but to everyone's surprise he insisted that he is not the least bit tired. He likes his present job as Navy coach too much to quit. "I never know my youngsters until they come down to the boathouse to try out for the crew," he told his old logging pals. "And some of them prove to have no more rhythm than a knot in an outhouse door. But if you like to work with young...
...troubles stemmed from the harsh struggle for position and survival in an industry that has long since passed the stage of easy growth. Since 1954 the number of manufacturers has dropped from 101 to 32, of whom ten or twelve do most of the business. Each time a producer quit, the efforts to liquidate his inventory touched off another shuddering round of price competition among the survivors. In addition, the whole TV price level slid downhill with General Electric's introduction of portable sets priced substantially below table or console models. Though portables were hailed as opening a brand...