Word: quits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amazed by your comments on the reason why the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare resigned [Feb. 2]. I could not believe that a man with the ability you described would quit merely because he didn't have the resources needed to get all aspects of his job done...
...Governor of Illinois has ever served three terms. Last week two-term Democrat Otto Kerner, 59, announced that he would prefer not to challenge history. Kerner's unexpected decision to quit-and possibly get a federal judgeship-left Illinois Democrats with reminiscences of 1948, when Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal...
Galbraith contends that the U.S. went into Viet Nam under the mistaken notion that it was fighting "a centrally directed Communist conspiracy." In the light of the Moscow-Peking split, he adds, that notion is no longer valid, and the U.S. ought to quit wasting its energies there at the expense of domestic needs and of other, more important areas, such as Japan and India. Viet Nam is "the wrong place to make a stand," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1966. "If we were not in Viet Nam, all that part of the world would be enjoying...
Whether the sisters quit the schools -or are pushed out of them-the real losers would be their students. The Immaculate Heart nuns have a reputation as exceptional teachers. Moreover, good teachers are hard to come by in the city, especially since parochial-school salaries are $1,500 to $2,000 a year less than those in public schools...
...whole) is American-controlled may effectively cut off other traditional middle-class pursuits, Last week, IBM's subsidiary here hired a recent Berkeley graduate. When he reported for work he was told that he would be flown to New York for a month's training. He quit on the spot...