Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vowing to change all that in short order or else resign, Auric started boldly by scheduling Alban Berg's fiercely modern Wozzeck. "If I am not able to mount this production," he declared, "I will know that nothing can be done for the National Opera here." He demanded an unprecedented 35 rehearsals, grappled successfully with eleven labor unions (guardians of the Opera's bloated staff of 1,100, including 95 stagehands, 35 firemen, 32 electricians, 30 wardrobe mistresses), but still lacked funds for his crash program...
...purge were six men, including Assembly Majority Leader "Bingo Bill" Murphy and Assembly Appropriations Committee Chairman Peter Granata. Put on Percy's slate were such men as Dwight Eisenhower's brother Earl, 66, the public relations director of a suburban Chicago newspaper chain, which insisted that he resign his job to make the race; onetime Chicago Daily News Reporter and Scandal Sleuth George Thiem, and former TV Weatherman Clint Youle...
Kennedy's political future is in doubt. He has repeatedly said that he plans to resign as Attorney General after the November elections. Friends have insisted that he would accept the Vice-Presidential nomination but President Johnson seems unenthusiastic about the prospect. His younger brother's campaign for reelection to the Senate eliminates the possibility for elective office in Massachusetts this year...
While admittedly impressive, the list is little cause for comfort. All the men indicted, save Public Safety Commissioner Frank Giles, are still in office, doing business as usual. Speaker Thompson has flatly refused to resign, saying it will prejudice his case in court. Efforts by the inept GOP minority in the House to unseat him have failed, and for the moment anyway, Thompson, instead of being in irons, is still the Iron Duke of Ludlow...
Dean William S. Barnes will resign as Assistant Dean at the Law School to concentrate on Latin American studies at Harvard and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the CRIMSON learned last night. Barnes has held his Law School position since...