Word: quits
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...weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising weapons as well as children's "toys of violence." A surprising exception to the mood of reevaluation; Presidential Candidate Eugene McCarthy, who insists that controls are a state rather than a federal matter because of widely...
...rebuke to violence, 1,000 New York schoolchildren turned a mound of toy guns and comics?including Superman and Combat?over to trash collectors. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward stopped mail-order gun sales after King's assassination; Macy's, Alexander's and Abraham & Straus in New York had quit selling guns even before that. Last week Ohio's J-Mart discount stores gave their entire $20,000 inventory of guns to the Columbus police...
...heal-in"-admitting far more patients than the hospital could handle. More recently, the bacteriology labs became so overloaded that they had to suspend all diagnostic services to outpatient and emergency wards. Last month, after weeks of long hours and double shifts, the badly undermanned X-ray staff simply quit work on a busy weekend and went home. That was more than the hospital's 27 hardened chief physicians and surgeons could endure. Despite their professional aversion to notoriety, they gave Boston newspapers full, clinical details of the hospital's chronic condition -a move calculated to arouse...
...Angeles that may gross over $1,000,000 this year. On the strength of his composing, arranging, conducting and producing for The Buckinghams-five singles and two albums, all of which reached the charts-he recently signed a contract to develop new talent for Columbia Records. Guercio quit college "when John Kennedy died and the Beatles were born," went on the road with such groups as Chad & Jeremy and The Mothers of Invention. Like his idol, the late avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, he is given to such pronouncements as, "A record is sound forever, not just...
Backing Off. Then some Tribune staffers began to rebel. Deskman Rex Adkins, a twelve-year man, quit the paper in protest, saying: "I can't work for Knowland any longer." Rush Greenlee, a Negro reporter who had been hired a year ago and who had turned out incisive articles on the ghetto, also resigned with a blast at Knowland. Other staffers laid plans to run a separate ad disavowing the publisher's position. At that point, Knowland backed off a bit and said that no more counterboycott ads would...