Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viri. Demobbed, Haldane took a post as a lecturer in biochemistry at Cambridge University. He also took another man's wife, Writer Charlotte Franken. When he had to pay ?1,000 damages as corespondent, the university asked Haldane to resign. He refused. He was called before the Sex Viri* and fired. Haldane appealed, and a special university court upheld Haldane in his contention that a professor's private life is none of the university's business. Then Haldane and Charlotte Franken got married...
...White House staffers who have, in the last few weeks, expressed publicly or privately their desire to get out, actually do resign, there will be only one left. That will be McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant for National Security, who obviously figures that if he hangs around long enough he will get Dean Rusk's job. As for the others...
Brazilians know Lacerda as a politician in perpetual motion, the man whose unceasing attacks forced Jãnio Quadros to resign and focused opposition on his successor, the Leftist João Goulart. He is a hard man to feel neutral about. In blazing headlines around the country, pro-Lacerda papers took up the cudgels for his "most noble civic and moral propositions." Anti-Lacerda papers vilified him as a "murderer" and "torturer." As he neared Rio last week, political enemies narrowly missed in an attempt to dynamite his train. Brazil's three other major political parties hastily announced...
...disregarded the advice of the professionals and attacked Senator Joseph McCarthy. Branded by some members of his own party "Stalin's candidate," he won by the narrowest margin in New Jersey's history. When Sherman Adams was under investigation, Case bluntly advised his old friend to resign; they have never communicated since...
...these advisers are more or less coordinated through the President's Council of Economic Advisers, but they range far beyond the usual scope of the CEA. Walter Heller, author of the tax cut and the most influential chairman in the CEA's history, is expected to resign soon and return to the University of Minnesota, though the President is eager to keep him on. Heller's replacement could well be Michigan's Gardner Ackley, 49, a somewhat quieter but equally activist CEA member. Whoever heads the CEA, the band of outside economic advisers is certain...