Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic problem is that the school post requires a charismatic political leader rather than a logical technician-a man who can overpower the power groups and escape becoming a prisoner of the system. Gross is not that man. The board asked him to resign and ordered him at least to take a three-month leave. Gross, whose contract has four years to run, hired Attorney Herbert Brownell to protect his rights. For the city, a basic question loomed: Can any man, anywhere, handle...
...would assume associate status. When the change went into effect in January, South India's non-Hindi-speaking people feared that henceforth they would be discriminated against in government employment and in other ways. Riots flared (TIME, Feb. 5), and the Cabinet ministers from South India threatened to resign unless English was fully restored. But Shastri also faced angry pressure from the Hindi side of his verbally violent party. Last week 106 Congress Party M.P.s from North India petitioned the government-in English-to uphold Hindi as the only official language. Fanatics of the pro-Hindi Jan Sangh Party...
...Robert J. Glaser '40, professor of Social Medicine and head of a $50 million teaching hospital complex planned for the Medical School, announced he will resign in June to become dean of the School of Medicine at Stanford University...
...Said McKeon: "At best it was a union between city hall and the Governor's mansion in the finest of shotgun-wedding traditions. The two guns held by each of these men were aimed at the eyes of the public." Mayor Wagner replied by again demanding that McKeon resign. That sort of bitterness seemed likely to keep New York Democrats split wide open for a long time...
...noisy jeering came from the Tory benches. Trying to make himself heard between outbursts ("Resign! Resign!") of up to 20 minutes' duration, the Prime Minister dismissed Sir Alec as a "scat singer,"* blamed Britain's economic squeeze on the "irresponsibility" of the former administration. And, he warned, the squeeze was going to get worse. With that, he announced bitter news for the aircraft industry: cancellation of two major contracts for military planes, which the government decided were too expensive and would take too long to build. Britain could buy the planes more cheaply from the U.S., Wilson said...