Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly likely to lead to an investigation, let alone the first successful impeachment of a Supreme Court Justice in the nation's history. Nor were they likely to persuade the ruggedly individualistic Douglas-who has served 27 years on the court-to repeat a half-serious offer to resign from the bench, tendered to President Kennedy after his second divorce in 1963. His first marriage, to Mildred Riddle, ended in 1953 after 30 years and two children; his second, to Divorcee Mercedes Hester Davidson, lasted nine years; his third, to Joan Carol Martin, 26, broke up last December after...
Harel's nameless successor at Shin Bet sharply opposed anyone's meddling in security and twice threatened to resign. Forced to choose between the two, Eshkol typically compromised: he kept Harel at a desk but gave him nothing to do. After ten months of inactivity, Harel last month angrily turned in his badge...
Though a member of the armed forces cannot officially campaign, Willmore said last week at his 1st Cavalry Division (Airborne) post in An Khe: "I am already running." His wife and friends have been combing the district to drum up supporters, and Willmore plans to resign his captaincy if he wins the primary. A political science graduate of the University of Idaho who joined the Army five years ago, he then will cover the district's 42,104 square miles in a helicopter, is given a good chance of winning in what has become a swing area. He believes...
Nasution wavered. The murder of his daughter had left him profoundly shocked. One day he would demand that Sukarno outlaw the P.K.I, or resign, the next declare his undivided loyalty to the "Great Leader of the Revolution." "General Nasution," observes one leading politician, "is the Hamlet of Indonesia. He believes he is destined to save the country. But he vacillates in a moment of crisis...
...cross winds of Arab nationalism and Moslem dogmatism, A.U.B. has from its beginning been torn by controversy. As early as 1882, 43 years before the Scopes trial in the U.S., A.U.B. Professor Edwin R. Lewis endorsed Darwin's evolution theories in a commencement speech and was forced to resign in the ensuing furor. Striking students clashed with police in 1952, when A.U.B. banned pro-Arab politicking on campus, then disbanded the student government. Last spring the ultrasensitive government of Lebanon, serving a population half Moslem and half Christian, ordered an A.U.B. teacher expelled from the country for assigning students...