Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senators, understandably, have less interest in the change. For one thing, it would help build up challengers for their own seats (although the proposal as now drafted would force a Representative to resign at least a month before Election Day if he decided to run for the Senate). Some House members who face little challenge in their districts also are skeptical. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a 22-term Congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reasons: "The House represents the people, and they should have the right to register their will more often than every four years...
Gardiner M. Day, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, has announced that he will resign from his parish in September, Day, who is 66, has been at Christ Church for twenty-five years...
...Bolivia, where things are seldom what they seem, the little tableau was actually normal democratic process. The junta had called presidential elections for July 3. And Barrientos, the country's leading candidate, was only sticking to the constitution, which provides that a candidate must resign any public office he holds six months before the balloting. To rest up and get in shape for the long campaign ahead, Barrientos decided to spend a few weeks abroad...
...crucial challenge facing the civil rights movement is to make legal equality meaningful in economic and educational terms. The change of focus was emphasized by last week's announcement that James Farmer would resign March 1 as national director of the Congress of Racial Equality to head a new anti-poverty group, the Center for Community Action Education...
President Johnson visits France, and all chefs in charge of cooking the state banquet resign. Lady Bird prepares instant coffee in hotel room. Communists take over Indionesia. When asked about the coup at a press conference, Sukarno laughs and pinches a lady reporter...