Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some cases, four extra years. According to Fleming, "such a high proportion of the Faculty is asked to stay on that those who are allowed to retire are deeply hurt." As a result, a professor who has the slightest doubt about being asked to stay is tempted to resign near the age of 60 and to accept a position where employment is guaranteed to a later age. This allows him to save potential face and to insure that he continues to earn a living for several extra years...
...world featherweight boxing champion, the crowd-pleasing "Scotch Wop" (he grew up as Giuseppe Carrora in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange...
Until the outcry against his high handed policing of the magazine Der Spiegel forced him to resign from Konrad Adenauer's Cabinet 21 years ago, Bavaria's bull-necked Franz Josef Strauss, now 49, was the fair-haired Knabe of Christian Democratic politics...
...alliance was cracked sadly a fortnight ago when Erhard and the C.D.U. insisted on extending the statute of limitations against Nazi war criminals. Tired of the Nazi trials, the F.D.P. opposed the new legislation on constitutional grounds, and F.D.P. Minister of Justice Ewald Bucher went so far as to resign his Cabinet post. To the Free Democrats' surprise, Erhard called the bluff, promptly replaced Bucher with a C.D.U...
Barrientos now wants to be Bolivia's duly elected President, but faces opposition because of his reluctance to abide by the constitution and resign as head of the junta six months before the Sept. 26 elections. One night as he was driving to Cochabamba, a gunman on a motorcycle roared out of the darkness, pumping bullets into the general's Jeep. Barrientos' bulletproof vest, say his aides, stopped two of the slugs; a third hit him in the left buttock. In no time at all, political and nonpolitical friends were beating a path to his bedside...